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Liquid Paper; Levittown

We gave the baby boomers plenty of room to play in

The law of unintended consequences is usually invoked to explain political disasters. Take Prohibition.

A fortune in other people’s back yards

 

The generation that fought World War II also won a housing revolution that promised and delivered a home for $7990.

After the fall of his financial empire, William Levitt remembered with some satisfaction the story of a boy in Levittown, Long Island who finished his prayers with “and God bless Mommy and Daddy and Mr. Levitt.” Levitt may well have belonged in this trinity.

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