J. Anthony Lukas
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
Lecture: The Powerful and the Powerless
From the NYPL Public Programs Brochure for Fall/Winter 1988/1989:
J. Anthony Lukas' Common Ground, a study of race and class in Boston, won him his second Pulitzer Prize, the first, in 1968, was for local reporting. In between he published a remarkable series of books examining American social unrest: The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, Don't Shoot: We Are Your Children!, and Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years. He spent ten years reporting for The New York Times in Washington, D.C., New York, the Congo, and India.
WNYC archives id: 11129
