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Don't Shoot-We Are Your Children!
"Remarkable portraits of ten young Americans and their parents"--Jacket subtitle.
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436 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1971
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J. Anthony Lukas
16 books26 followersJay Anthony Lukas was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground : A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families a study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid - 1970's.
Lukas began his professional journalism career at the Baltimore Sun, then moved to The New York Times. He stayed at the ''Times'' for nine years, working as a roving reporter, and serving at the Washington, New York, and United Nations bureaus, and overseas in Ceylon, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, and Zaire. After working at the New York Times Magazine for a short time in the 1970s, Lukas quit reporting to pursue a career in book and magazine writing,
In 1997, while his final book, Big Trouble, was undergoing final revisions, Lukas committed suicide by hanging himself with a bathrobe sash.He had been diagnosed with depression approximately ten years earlier,
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Lukas began his professional journalism career at the Baltimore Sun, then moved to The New York Times. He stayed at the ''Times'' for nine years, working as a roving reporter, and serving at the Washington, New York, and United Nations bureaus, and overseas in Ceylon, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, and Zaire. After working at the New York Times Magazine for a short time in the 1970s, Lukas quit reporting to pursue a career in book and magazine writing,
In 1997, while his final book, Big Trouble, was undergoing final revisions, Lukas committed suicide by hanging himself with a bathrobe sash.He had been diagnosed with depression approximately ten years earlier,
Bibliography information from Wikipedia.
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May 9, 2020
In the 'Groovy Murders' of 1967, a young wanderer from small town Michigan and his wealthy teen girlfriend were bludgeoned with bricks. This rattled Greenwich Village's hippie culture and was lurid newspaper fodder. Among the ten biographies here, the author goes back to the grandparents to present background and life stories on individuals radicalized against American society or rejecting of its mores. Also covered in detail is the journey from privilege and sports journalism to radicalism of Jerry Rubin and the journey from L.A. to Harvard to the Watts Riots of CSUN Pan African Studies professor Johnie Scott. Scott's story includes much of his compelling poetry and a cameo from Peter Ivers.
These are fascinating and illuminating biographies of lives not examined to this level of detail elsewhere.
These are fascinating and illuminating biographies of lives not examined to this level of detail elsewhere.
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