![]() ![]() each incredibly interesting in its own right and an important part of the overall story. Moreover, every time Anthony Lukas introduces anything new he goes back to its origins and full history, making the mini histories of Irish, Black Bostonians, the Great Migration, The Boston Globe, the Charlestown high school, Judge Garrity, The Boston Globe, etc. Establishing and understanding that point took inhabiting the minds of several different characters from several perspectives and watching them change over the course of a decade. The point of this book was how complex race relations in general, and busing in particular, were in the 1960s and 1970s in Boston. Sometimes you get the point of a book quickly but it has lots of padding. Common Ground is very long (I mostly listened but partly read it over the course of two months), but I would not have parted with a page of it. ![]() Among the best narrative nonfiction books I have ever read, perhaps the best. ![]()
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