Common Ground

A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

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Common Ground

By: J. Anthony Lukas

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities."

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"A huge and marvelous work." (Kai Erikson, The New York Times Book Review)

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So informative and well written, filled with heart and intelligence. The narration is superb.

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