His previous books include The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial Don't Shoot-We Are Your Children! and Nightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years. In Common Ground, Lukas told the story of Bostons bitter struggles over busing for school integration through the experiences of three families-the African.

He has been a Nieman, Kennedy, and Guggenheim Fellow and has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Boston University. Kennedy Book Award, the George Polk Memorial Award, the Mike Berger Award, and the Page One Award. Lukas was a reporter for The New York Times when he won his first Pulitzer in 1968 for 'The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick.' The story tells of a teenager from an. Anthony Lukas is best known for his writings about the social upheaval of the 1960s and 70s. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. He has also won the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Buy a cheap copy of Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the. Mr Lukas has received the Pulitzer Prize twice: for Special Local Reporting in 1968 and for Common Ground in 1986. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems. In 1972, he left the paper to freelance and to write books. Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation.

After four years on the Baltimore Sun, he joined The New York Times, serving as a correspondent at the United Nations, in Washington, in Africa, India, Korea, Japan, and Australia, as Roving National Correspondent, and as a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Anthony Lucas was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard College.

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