# William Levitt

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Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity. Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, commercial strips, and sprawl; and the single-family …

Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity. Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, commercial strips, and sprawl; and the single-family …

Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity. Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, commercial strips, and sprawl; and the single-family …

Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity. Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, commercial strips, and sprawl; and the single-family …

America’s Hangover with Spirits

The talk ranges from a little politics to Super Bowl advertising, and train travel. Shop Talk Focus Group reveals that Gen Z is shunning liquor more than previous generations resulting in the bankruptcy of a few brands. Caught My Eye covers a front porch auction find and the latest in Amtrak fashio…

Redlining: The Map Decided Who Could Build Wealth and It's Why the Gap Still Exists.

The federal government drew a map. That map still determines who has wealth and who does not.   In Episode 8 of Committed to Misunderstanding, licensedclinical mental health therapist Chuck Lenahan examines redlining — not as abanking practice, but as a federal engineering project that built racial…

Your Grandparents' Neighborhood Was Designed to Exclude Black People. Let's Talk About It.

There’s a clip from the 1950s that every single American needs to see. A white woman in Levittown, Pennsylvania, looking dead into a camera, saying the quiet part loud: “I just could not live beside them. I don’t feel that they should be oppressed. But I moved here. One of the main reasons was beca…

The Man Who Built The American Suburb: William Levitt

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S01E08: The House That Levitt Built: America in the 1950s; Suburbs, Rock and Roll, a Broken Senator, and the Courage That Cracked the System

HIS 223 (Week 6) Episode Title: The House That Levitt Built: America in the 1950s; Suburbs, Rock and Roll, a Broken Senator, and the Courage That Cracked the System Episode Description: The 1950s built more houses, highways, televisions, and babies than any decade before it — and did it while a B…