Common Ground

Summary

An immersive narrative tracing three Boston families — Black, Irish American, and white collar Yankee — through the city's wrenching school busing crisis of the 1970s. Lukas uses their intertwined stories to expose the class, racial, and institutional fractures beneath the liberal image a Northern city held of itself. The book stands as a landmark of immersive journalism, blending intimate biography with sweeping civic history.