{"product_id":"2940011441875","title":"Growing Up Levittown: In a Time of Conformity, Controversy and Cultural Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntellectuals and critics attacked Levittown unmercifully, essentially calling it a boring environment that crushed the spirit of its population. Popular authors, such as Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, used the modern suburb as a metaphor for creative sterility.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Pete Seeger sang, “Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky; Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same,” everyone knew he was talking about Levittown and all that it begot.\u003cbr\u003eAs it turned out, the intellectuals and the critics got it all so very wrong from the start.\u003cbr\u003eNot only wasn’t Levittown dullsville, but a surprising number of creative people passed through here, including songwriter Ellie Greenwich, singers Eddie Money and Billy Joel, Zippie The Pinhead cartoonist Bill Griffith, children’s book illustrator Jon Buller, radio host John Gambling, TV political commentator Bill O’Reilly, Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground (the house band for Andy Warhol’s factory), and Steve Bergsman, journalist and author.\u003cbr\u003eSteve Bergsman grew up in Levittown during those early years and looking back now as an aging baby boomer, he thought it a wonderful place to have spent a childhood. Growing Up Levittown: In a Time of Conformity, Controversy and Cultural Crisis is a love letter to this quintessential suburb.\u003cbr\u003eJuxtaposed against a prevailing history of criticism and literary slander, Growing Up Levittown is a memoir of a happy childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dancing Traveller Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078329975024,"sku":"2940011441875","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011441875_p0.jpg?v=1763549285","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011441875","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}