Levittown
Levittown: The two sides of America
The story of The Myers and the Wechsler families is a social commentary of America at the time. A time of differing views on collision courses toward one another. The tale of Levittown is one of the American spirit in its most heroic forms and its most villainous depths. It is overall a story of personal struggle of the civil rights movement rather than a history of events which happened with facts and statistics, this book entails the personal struggles and allows an individual to understand the struggle at a personal level. The story of Levittown the tale of two families and one tycoon tells far more than of the civil rights as well. It tells of suburban life, and the details of these planned communities. After doing some research of David Kushner the author of this tale an interesting detail emerges. Kushner tends to write about underdog stories. His books are about mavericks of society who break away and succeed despite many going out of their way to stop them. Two of his books were about video game creators who pushed the boundaries on what was allowed, one of which is still a controversial game known as Grand Theft Auto. It is easy to see what he found appealing about all three of the subjects of this novel, a Jewish family who stood up throughout their lives for what they felt was right. An African American family who move into a white neighborhood and withstand everything from the threat of violence, the Ku Klux Klan and countless amounts of hate aimed at them, and the story of a Jewish boy from New York making from rags to riches on an idea he was told would not work, and then never changing his policy despite being ordered to by interest groups, the public, the state, and the United States government. This story is full of struggles of underdogs, all of which succeed in their own way. The story revolves around three different families, the Levitt family, the Myers family, and the Wechsler family. All of these
The story of The Myers and the Wechsler families is a social commentary of America at the time. A time of differing views on collision courses toward one another. The tale of Levittown is one of the American spirit in its most heroic forms and its most villainous depths. It is overall a story of personal struggle of the civil rights movement rather than a history of events which happened with facts and statistics, this book entails the personal struggles and allows an individual to understand the struggle at a personal level. The story of Levittown the tale of two families and one tycoon tells far more than of the civil rights as well. It tells of suburban life, and the details of these planned communities. After doing some research of David Kushner the author of this tale an interesting detail emerges. Kushner tends to write about underdog stories. His books are about mavericks of society who break away and succeed despite many going out of their way to stop them. Two of his books were about video game creators who pushed the boundaries on what was allowed, one of which is still a controversial game known as Grand Theft Auto. It is easy to see what he found appealing about all three of the subjects of this novel, a Jewish family who stood up throughout their lives for what they felt was right. An African American family who move into a white neighborhood and withstand everything from the threat of violence, the Ku Klux Klan and countless amounts of hate aimed at them, and the story of a Jewish boy from New York making from rags to riches on an idea he was told would not work, and then never changing his policy despite being ordered to by interest groups, the public, the state, and the United States government. This story is full of struggles of underdogs, all of which succeed in their own way. The story revolves around three different families, the Levitt family, the Myers family, and the Wechsler family. All of these