In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb with Author Tim Keogh ‘07 

Thursday, April 18, 2:40 pm - 4:05 pm
There is a familiar narrative about American suburbs. After 1945, white residents left cities for leafy, affluent subdivisions and the prosperity they seemed to embody. In Levittown’s Shadow tells us there’s more to this story, offering an eye-opening account of diverse, poor residents living and working in those same neighborhoods. Tim Keogh shows how public policies produced both suburban plenty and deprivation-and why ignoring suburban poverty doomed efforts to reduce inequality.
Named one of the best nonfiction books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly.
Tim Keogh is assistant professor of history at Queensborough Community College, CUNY.
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