Plus, The Race Underground answers crucial questions such as why the hub-and-spoke design for the T- who came up with that genius idea? Oh, the directions the area could’ve gone in, but didn’t. This history of the good, the bad, and the ugly that went into the development of the T is also about the development of the Boston region at a crucial time. The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway Here’s the Western Hemisphere’s oldest subway just starting to trundle forth near Boston Common in January 1897. More than that, Common Ground is a tale of how the urban landscape morphed during that period and how that change set the table for the rebound in urban living, for better or worse, that’s going on today. Which titles would you add?Ĭommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesĪn incredible journalistic deep-dive (our copy clocks in at 688 pages) into how the changes in the Boston region and in the City of Boston in particular in the 1960s and 1970s impacted the lives of the people who lived through them.

These books are a mix of nonfiction and fiction-and include a couple of selections for those under 18-and a mix of the very personal and the sweeping. wikipedia-en:J.Numerous authors over the decades have taken up their pen or their processor to try to better explain this lovely thing called Boston.yago:Wikicat20th-centuryAmericanWriters.yago:WikicatJournalistsWhoCommittedSuicide.dbt:PulitzerPrize_Investigative_Reporting.dbt:PulitzerPrize_GeneralNon-Fiction_1976–2000.dbc:Suicides_by_hanging_in_New_York_City.dbc:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Investigative_Reporting_winners.dbr:Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction.dbr:Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism.dbr:Robert_F._Kennedy_Center_for_Justice_and_Human_Rights.

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Common Ground is a classic study of race relations, class conflict, and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one working-class white, and one working-class African-American.

Jay Anthony Lukas (Ap– June 5, 1997) was an American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families.

Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas