David Kushner's "Levittown."
David Kushner tells the story of York, Pa.'s Bill and Daisy Myers and the discrimination they faced after moving into a new house in Bucks County's Levittown in 1957.
Kushner's 2009 work draws from - and expands upon by bringing in many other sources -Daisy Myers' 2005 memoir "Sticks 'n Stones."
For more, click on the post: New book 'Levittown' tells about the Myers family's quest to live the American dream - in York, Pa., too.
John D. Fair's work covers the storied growth of York Barbell.
Steroids use is back in the news with allegations that superstar Alex Rodriguez used the illegal drug as a member of the New York Yankees.
In "Muscletown U.S.A.," John D. Fair comprehensively covers Bob Hoffman and his company, York Barbell, and all they meant in the world of bodybuilding and weightlifting. He also writes about the York and York Barbell connection to early steroid use in sports. The Rodriguez controversy comes on the 10th anniversary of the publication of Fair's Penn State Press book.
For details about Fair's work and a York Daily Record/Sunday News story on the local steroids story, click here.
Sarah Byrn Rickman's book "The Originals" covers York native Aline Rhonie and other pilots of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron in World War II.
The book has been around a few years but contains interesting material on female pilots who played an important role in World War II.
Aline Rhonie was one of the pilots. For more on this Renaissance woman, click here.
