The fight for civil rights & the American dream

"Levittown" is the story of the Leviit family, determined to sell homes and provide families with the American Dream. However, the Levitt dream had a whites only policy.

Kushner shares with readers the explosive weeks during the summer of 1957 when an African-American family buys into the American dream.

David Kushner is the author of Masters of Doom and Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids. He teachers graduate journalism at New York University, and lives in New Jersey with his family.

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