It is obvious that Common Ground, his great study of the fight over busing in Boston in the 1970s, served as her model and exemplar. Anthony Lukas, who was indeed "patron saint to a generation of nonfiction writers," and who, it probably should be mentioned, was an old friend of mine. It is a good and useful book, and it sheds light upon a few dark corners of those hard years, but it falls short of its author's ambitions.Īs inspiration and mentor McWhorter cites the late J. Carry Me Home is immense in size - yet McWhorter confesses that "my original manuscript was three times the present length of the book"! - but rather smaller in historical and literary weight. Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolutionĭiane McWhorter, a native of Birmingham with familial ties to that city's ruling class, has spent more than a decade and a half researching the events that took place there - many of them dreadful - during the long struggle to assure the rights and opportunities of black Americans.
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