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Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream,Used
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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 nations 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 nations most successful entrepreneurs of the managed economy Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson. Eric John Abrahamson deftly connects these three strands as he chronicles Ahmansons rise against the background of the postwar housing boom and the growth of L.A. during the same period.As a suntanned yachtsman and a cigarsmoking financier, the Omahaborn 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 middleclass 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 mortgageled financial crisis, Ahmansons life offers powerful insights into an era when the widespread hope of homeownership was just beginning to take shape.
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