Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream 9780520953420
Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and ind
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Table of contents :
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
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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- Eric John Abrahamson
