![]() ![]() Most writers, I think, want to write the kind of books they like to read. Yet I didn’t know what I wanted to write about. “But after I finished I realized that I’d been looking at it from long distance: I wanted to get closer to my next subject. 2: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.) Here’s how Lukas came to the idea: “My last book before Common Ground dealt with (a) theatrical subject - Watergate,” he once told a National Book Foundation interviewer. 28 on the list of the top 100 works of 20th-century U.S. It won both the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the National Book Award, and, in 1999, a group of distinguished journalists led by New York University Professor Mitchell Stephens named it No. ![]() In braided structure, voice, detail, depth of reporting and elegance of writing, the book is a masterwork of journalistic storytelling. ![]() Lukas, a two-time Pulitzer winner, is best known for his bestselling 1985 book Common Ground, about school busing and race relations in Boston. ![]()
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