Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream

by Eric John Abrahamson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520273753
• ISBN13: 9780520273757
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"