J. Anthony Lukas Quote
Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major instrument for town building, even if—or precisely because—it sometimes represented things that had not yet gone through the formality of taking place.39 Western newspapers, like western railroads, often ran well ahead of settlement—a process that, in many bleak locales, was still waiting to happen.
J. Anthony Lukas
Like other booster papers across the West, the weekly Tribune was a major instrument for town building, even if—or precisely because—it sometimes represented things that had not yet gone through the formality of taking place.39 Western newspapers, like western railroads, often ran well ahead of settlement—a process that, in many bleak locales, was still waiting to happen.
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About J. Anthony Lukas
Jay Anthony Lukas (April 25, 1933 – June 5, 1997) was an American journalist and author, best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Common Ground is a classic study of race relations, class conflict, 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 working-class African-American.