Making Long Island: A History of Growth and the American Dream

by Lawrence R. Samuel

Discover the history of the development of Long Island and its intimate relationship with New York City. /

Beginning in the Roaring Twenties, Wall Street money looked eastward to Nassau and Suffolk counties looking generate wealth from a land boom. After the Great Depression and World War II, Long Island was the site of the creation of the quintessential postwar American suburb, Levittown. Levittown and its spinoff suburban communities served...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467154970
• ISBN13: 9781467154970
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.7"