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==Further reading== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060428021413/http://history.latech.edu/anderson_vta.htm Anderson, David], [http://labor.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/2/3/47 Levittown is Burning: Gas Line Riot and the Decline of the Blue-Collar American Dream]," ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas'' (Duke University Press: Fall 2005) *Caldwell, Christopher, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060318185034/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_10_51/ai_54618886 "Levittown to Littleton: Seclusion of Affluent Suburbs Prevents Normal Socialization For Children,"] ''National Review'', (May 31, 1999) (arguing that the multi-acre lots of the western suburbs such as those who attend [[Columbine High School]] in Colorado, largely unknown in the east, isolate affluent suburban children and present a problem that no child in Levittown ever faced) *Duncan, Susan Kirsch, ''Levittown: The Way We Were'', Maple Hill Press (1999), {{ISBN|0-930545-18-4}} *Dubya, Jay (Wiessner), ''Black Leather and Blue Denim: A '50s Novel'', CyberRead Publishing (2001), {{ISBN|1-931921-76-8}} (a fictionalized account of "greasers" in Levittown's Dogwood Hollow and Kenwood sections during the 1950s) * {{cite book |last1=Gans |first1=Herbert J. Gans |author1-link=Herbert J. Gans |title=The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community |date=1967 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=0-231-05571-4 |url=http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/pdf-files/gans.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051109034842/http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/pdf-files/gans.pdf |access-date=4 December 2020 |archive-date=2005-11-09 |quote=(though written about Levittown, New Jersey, which had since reverted to its original name, [[Willingboro, New Jersey]], the book includes information relevant to Levitt & Sons development in general)}} * Goetz, Sam. ''{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050416045355/http://www.brunomovie.com/home.htm Bruno]}},'' 16 mm black and white film (2006) (Sam Goetz grew up in Lower Orchard section of Levittown; the production was filmed at locations in the "urban wasteland" of Trenton, New Jersey, and at locations in and around Levittown, including [https://web.archive.org/web/20060813145747/http://www.bucksviews.com/Parks/CoreCreek/CoreCreek.htm Core Creek Park], the former Best Department Store, [https://web.archive.org/web/20031008184128/http://www.neshaminyhs.org/hires.html Neshaminy High School] and a Jubilee-style Levittown home) * Harris, Dianne, ed. ''Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania'' (University of Pittsburgh Press; 2010) 429 pages. Scholarly essays, oral histories, and other writings on the town *Hurst, Richard, [http://www.hos3.com/other/2006/02/my_bat.html "My Bay"], ''Christopher Street'' (New York: February 1994, issue 210), {{ISSN|0146-7921}} (written by a former Levittowner about Little League baseball, "the only tradition in our otherwise ahistoric lives of glass-ceiling experimental schools and clean theme-park summers," recounting summers marching as the season began from [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103011926/http://www.sandburgms.org/ Carl Sandburg Middle School] to the ball fields south of Twin Oaks) *{{cite crabgrass}} *Kimmel, Chad, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060904060017/http://www.wmich.edu/grad/dissertation/dis-archive/kimmel.htm ''Levittown, Pennsylvania: A Sociological History''], University of Western Michigan Dissertation (2004) (examines the arrival of Levittown's first African-American family, the 1979 gas riots and the decline of the steel industry on local residents) *Krass, Alfred C., "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060104180527/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=309 Growing Together in Spirituality: Pastor and Parish Have a Check-Up]," ''Christian Century'', (April 1987) (Krass was pastor of the [http://www.ucclevittown.org/ United Christian Church] in Levittown, and still a resident of the community; he asks how mainstream Protestants might move beyond the "autonomy of the individual member" that is so often part and parcel of a liberal world view) *[http://www.harcourtschool.com/articles/video_updates/035/035_160_80.html ''Levittown: Voices of the Millennium (video)''], Harcourt School Publishers (no date) *Popenoe, David, ''The Suburban Environment: Sweden and the United States'', University of Chicago Press, (1977), {{ISBN|0-226-67542-4}} (a comparison of Levittown and [https://web.archive.org/web/20060223150502/http://www.vallingbycentrum.se/vallingby2/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=104 Vällingby], Sweden, a [[Stockholm]] suburb of similar size, construction date and demographics; see also [[Hässelby-Vällingby Borough]], [[Vällingby]]) *Wechshler, Lewis, ''The First Stone: A Memoir of the Racial Integration of Levittown, Pennsylvania'', Grounds for Growth Press (2004), {{ISBN|0-615-12565-4}} *Wetherell, W.D., ''The Man Who Loved Levittown'', University of Pittsburgh Press (1985), {{ISBN|0-8229-3520-1}} (fiction, winner of the 1985 [[Drue Heinz Literature Prize]])
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