On This Ground: Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in America - Hardcover
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On This Ground: Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in America
The remarkable story of hope, determination, and resilience at a celebrated school in Newark, New Jersey, the students who thrive there, and a community that refused to let its children's education become a casualty of a growing racial divide.
In 1967, as the city of Newark, New Jersey, was engulfed by civil unrest after the beating of a Black cab driver by white police officers, the monks of...
Anthony DePalma is the author of The Cubans, The Man Who Invented Fidel, Here: A Biography of the New American Continent, and City of Dust. He was an education reporter and foreign correspondent for The New York Times for twenty-two years and continues to write for the newspaper as well as other publications. He lives in New Jersey.
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