City of American Dreams by Margaret Garb
The housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. This title tells a history of our national obsession with real estate. It reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods in industrializing cities.
Garb has produced an impressive and timely work of scholarship... Few studies provide comparably insightful analyses of both housing and home ownership and the role those two phenomena have played in the cultural construction of the 'American dream.' (Business History Review)
Margaret Garb is associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226282091 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226282090 |
| Title | City of American Dreams |
| Author | Margaret Garb |
| Series | Historical Studies Of Urban America |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2005-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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