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Levittown

Author : David Kushner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719732
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Levittown written by David Kushner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade after World War II, one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home, not just any home, but a good one, with all the modern conveniences. The Levitts--two brothers, William and Alfred, and their father, Abe--pooled their talents in land use, architecture, and sales to create story book town with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy. This is the story that unfolded in Levittown, PA, one unseasonably hot summer in 1957 on a quiet street called Deepgreen Lane. There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler secretly arranged for a black family, the Myers, to buy the little pink house next door. What followed was an explosive summer of violence that would transform their lives, and the nation. It would lead to the downfall of a titan, and the integration of the most famous suburb in the world. It's a story of hope and fear, invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when ordinary people take an extraordinary stand.

Second Suburb

Author : Dianne Harris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822977826
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Second Suburb written by Dianne Harris and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carved from eight square miles of Bucks County farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfillment of the American Dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon eclipsed its New York counterpart in scale and ambition, yet it continues to live in the shadow of its better-known sister and has received limited scholarly attention. Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history. The volume offers a fascinating profile of this planned community in two parts. The first examines Levittown from the inside, including oral histories of residents recalling how Levittown shaped their lives. One such reminiscence is by Daisy Myers, part of the first African American family to move to the community, only to become the targets of a race riot that would receive international publicity. The book also includes selections from the syndicated comic strip Zippy the Pinhead, in which Bill Griffith reflects on the angst-ridden trials of growing up in a Levittown, and an extensive photo essay of neighborhood homes, schools, churches, parks, and swimming pools, collected by Dianne Harris. The second part of the book views Levittown from the outside. Contributors consider the community's place in planning and architectural history and the Levitts' strategies for the mass production of housing. Other chapters address the class stratification of neighborhood sections through price structuring; individual attempts to personalize a home's form and space as a representation of class and identity; the builders' focus on the kitchen as the centerpiece of the home and its greatest selling point; the community's environmental and ecological legacy; racist and exclusionary sales policies; resident activism during the gas riots of 1979; and "America's lost Eden." Bringing together some of the top scholars in architectural history, American studies, and landscape studies, Second Suburb explores the surprisingly rich interplay of design, technology, and social response that marks the emergence and maturation of an exceptionally potent rendition of the American Dream.

Levittown

Author : Margaret Lundrigan Ferrer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738562285
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Levittown written by Margaret Lundrigan Ferrer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When developer Abraham Levitt and his two sons conceived the idea for Levittown in 1946, they were probably unaware of the future impact of their radical concept--to build cellarless, affordable tract housing on Long Island farmland. Levittown became the prototype suburban community that has been mirrored in towns throughout America and around the world. This delightful photographic history chronicles the growth and development of Levittown as returning World War II GIs flocked to it in droves, attracted by the promise of the American Dream of becoming homeowners. Despite criticism of its "stunning conformity," Levittown and its residents thrived as they raised families, started businesses, and created a close-knit community that exists to this day. This enchanting collection of photographs reveals the joys and struggles of Levittown's founders and residents as they carved their niche in American history.

The Levittowners

Author : Herbert J. Gans
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154264X
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Levittowners written by Herbert J. Gans and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work chronicles the invention of a new community and its major institutions, the beginnings of social and political life, and the former city residents' adaptation to suburban living. Gans uses his research to reject the charge that suburbs are sterile and pathological. First published in 1967, The Levittowners is a classic of participant-observer ethnography that also paints a sensitive portrait of working-class and lower-middle-class life in America. This new edition features a foreword by Harvey Molotch that reflects on Gans's challenges to conventional wisdom.

Levittown

Author : Richard G. Wagner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738572765
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Levittown written by Richard G. Wagner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, Levittown was created in Bucks County outside of Philadelphia by builder pioneers Levitt and Sons; a superb collection of history and photographs illustrates the birth and growth of this unique area, explores the community that resulted and features residents' personal memories of the golden years. Original.

Expanding the American Dream

Author : Barbara M. Kelly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408692
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Expanding the American Dream written by Barbara M. Kelly and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-02-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the housing policies of the Depression and the Postwar period. Much less has been written of the houses built as a result of these policies, or the lives of the families who lived in them. Using the houses of Levittown, Long Island, as cultural artifacts, this book examines the relationship between the government-sponsored, mass-produced housing built after World War II, the families who lived in it, and the society that fostered it. Beginning with the basic four-room, slab-based Cape Cods and Ranches, Levittown homeowners invested time and effort, barter and money in the expansion and redesign of their houses. The author shows how this gradual process has altered the socioeconomic nature of the community as well, bringing Levittown fully into the mainstream of middle-class America. This book works on several levels. For planners, it offers a reassessment of the housing policies of the 1940s and '50s, suggesting that important lessons remain to be learned from the Levittown experience. For historians, it offers new insights into the nature of the suburbanization process that followed World War II. And for those who wish to understand the subtle workings of their own domestic space within their lives, it offers food for speculation.

The Ladies of Levittown

Author : Gene Horowitz
Publisher : Richard Marek Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780399900761
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Ladies of Levittown written by Gene Horowitz and published by Richard Marek Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Levittown

Author : Marc Palmieri
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822221890
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Levittown written by Marc Palmieri and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When Kevin, the grandson of a World War II combat veteran, returns early from yet another college, he learns that his deeply troubled sister is about to be married. With renewed hope, he attempts to reconcile his family with the abusive

Drama High

Author : Michael Sokolove
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594632804
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Drama High written by Michael Sokolove and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the NBC TV series "Rise," starring Josh Radnor, Auli'i Cravalho, and Rosie Perez — the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town. By the author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino. Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manhattan to the struggling former steel town of Levittown, Pennsylvania, to see a high school production of Les Misérables? To see the show performed by the astoundingly successful theater company at Harry S Truman High School, run by its legendary director, Lou Volpe. Broadway turns to Truman High when trying out controversial shows such as Rent and Spring Awakening before they move on to high school theater programs across the nation. Volpe’s students from this blue-collar town go on to become Emmy-winning producers, entertainment executives, newscasters, and community-theater founders. Michael Sokolove, a Levittown native and former student of Volpe’s, chronicles the drama director’s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through riveting dramas both on and off the stage. This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.

The Sprawl

Author : Jason Diamond
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895901
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Sprawl written by Jason Diamond and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

In Levittown’s Shadow

Author : Tim Keogh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226827755
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book In Levittown’s Shadow written by Tim Keogh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inverting the conventional history of American suburbanization, Tim Keogh turns the spotlight from wealth and freedom to poverty and inequality. Focusing on the archetypal Long Island communities of the postwar era, Keogh shows that a key driver of suburban development and the segregation it embodied was not housing but employment. Inequality and injustice were baked into suburban development, but housing discrimination was a secondary expression of this, not a primary cause. As a result, equity-minded suburbs that focused on housing policy rather than employment opportunities were doomed to fail. Keogh hopes to motivate more effective approaches to contemporary inequity by changing our understanding of how it took shape historically"--

The First Stone

Author : Lewis Wechsler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615125657
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The First Stone written by Lewis Wechsler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Levittown

Author : Margaret Lundrigan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780752409825
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Levittown written by Margaret Lundrigan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil War and Reconstruction

Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108753
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Civil War and Reconstruction written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the American Civil War and its aftermath through such primary sources as memoirs, diaries, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.

The Suburb Reader

Author : Becky M. Nicolaides
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415945941
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Suburb Reader written by Becky M. Nicolaides and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the 2000 Census, fifty percent of Americans live in suburbs, signifying a dramatic reversal of patterns since the 1920s. This work collects the best writings on such suburbs and includes scholarly essays, documents, and magazine and newspaper articles.

Postwar America

Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816071814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Postwar America written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the social history of America, including family and daily life, social attitudes, entertainment, and education.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Author : Richard Rothstein
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631492861
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America written by Richard Rothstein and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.