Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one working-class white, and one African-American.