The Boston busing crisis
Review of Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
This book offers an absolutely magnificent tableau of American politics in all its complexity and ambiguity. Lukas investigated the lives of three families in a fundamental controversy on the future of America: forced school busing.
The first family are brahmans (the Divers), from Harvard Law. In a moment of idealism that would forever change his career,…
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