0007) ANTHONY DEPALMA: ON THIS GROUND
 

 Anthony DePalma’s upcoming book, On This Ground: How the Toughest Prep School in America Ennobles Minds, Unburdens Hearts, and Enlightens Souls in a City that Nearly Died, will be published by St. Martin’s Press later this year and traces the history of St. Benedict’s Prep School, in Newark NJ, one of the most successful inner-city schools in the country.  DePalma tells the stories of the school’s resilient students and the downtown monks who refused to let the education of the city’s children, and the city itself, become causalities of the growing racial divide.