The Containment

“Splendid . . . Adams’s book explores class as well as race, with a richness and sophistication that recall J. Anthony Lukas’s 1985 masterpiece, Common Ground .” —Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Times Book Review “Passionate and well researched.” —Louis Menand, The New Yorker The epic story of Detroit’s struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs—and the defeat of desegregation in the North. In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley , the justices b