Building home Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream 9780520273757, 9780520953420

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English Pages x, 357 p Year 2013

Building home Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream
9780520273757, 9780520953420

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Eric John

Table of contents :
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Father as Mentor 2. Among the Lotus Eaters 3. Undertaker at a Plague 4. The Common Experience 5. Building Home 6. Scaling Up 7. Home and the State 8. Political Economy 9. Big Business 10. The Crest of a New Wave 11. Southland Patrician 12. Influence 13. Short of Domestic Bliss 14. Breakdown of Consensus 15. Crisis of the Managed Economy 16. A New Way of Life 17. A Personal Epic Conclusion Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Index

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