Building home : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream
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Building home : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream
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The work Building home : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Building home : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream
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- Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream
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- Eric John Abrahamson
- Subject
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- Ahmanson, Howard F
- Ahmanson, Howard F
- Ahmanson, Howard F
- American Dream
- American Dream -- History -- 20th century
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance
- Bauwirtschaft
- California -- Los Angeles
- Electronic books
- 1900-1999
- History
- Mortgage loans
- Mortgage loans -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Savings and loan associations
- Savings and loan associations -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- USA
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy. It is another part urban history, since the extraordinary success of the savings and loan business in Los Angeles reflects much of the cultural and economic history of Southern California. Finally, it is a personal story, a biography of one of the nation's most successful entrepreneurs of the managed economy --Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson. Eric John Abrahamson deftly connects these three strands as he chronicles Ahmanson's rise against the background of the postwar housing boom and the growth of L.A. during the same period. As a sun-tanned yachtsman and a cigar-smoking financier, the Omaha-born Ahmanson was both unique and representative of many of the business leaders of his era. He did not control a vast infrastructure like a railroad or an electrical utility. Nor did he build his wealth by pulling the financial levers that made possible these great corporate endeavors. Instead, he made a fortune by enabling the middle-class American dream. With his great wealth, he contributed substantially to the expansion of the cultural institutions in L.A. As we struggle to understand the current mortgage-led financial crisis, Ahmanson's life offers powerful insights into an era when the widespread hope of homeownership was just beginning to take shape."--
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- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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