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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas (Knopf, 659 pp., $19.95)

‘A marvelous saga,” said Newsweek, in perhaps the mildest of the acclamations that have greeted J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground, an account of the Boston school-desegregation crisis, 1968 to 1978. William A. Henry, reviewing the book for Time magazine, tries not to let his biases show as a former employee of the Boston Globe. It was left to The New Republic, however, to hail this hefty volume as “an extraordinary chronicle,” etc. The New Republic’s reviewer is Fox Butterfield, chief of the Boston bureau of the New York Times, while Lukas himself is an ex-New York Times correspondent.

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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas (Knopf, 659 pp., $19.95)

‘A marvelous saga,” said Newsweek, in perhaps the mildest of the acclamations that have greeted J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground, an account of the Boston school-desegregation crisis, 1968 to 1978. William A. Henry, reviewing the book for Time magazine, tries not to let his biases show as a former employee of the Boston Globe. It was left to The New Republic, however, to hail this hefty volume as “an extraordinary chronicle,” etc. The New Republic’s reviewer is Fox Butterfield, chief of the Boston bureau of the New York Times, while Lukas himself is an ex-New York Times correspondent.