Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue: The Lure of Levittown 1
5. 1 Prelude to Levittown 13
6. 2 Levittown, New York 30
7. 3 The Loss of Innocence 63
8. 4 The Racial Explosion 104
9. 5 Integration and Its Discontents 137
10. 6 Levittown Goes Upscale 172
11. 7 Bill Levitt in Paris 202
12. 8 Suburbia in the Tropics 244
13. 9 On Top of the World 280
14. 10 The Fall 302
15. Epilogue: Levitt’s Legacy 331
16. Notes 343
17. Index 393