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The Boston busing crisis

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Review of Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas

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Rob Crawford
Jun 02, 2023
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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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