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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.

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"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)"

City of American Dreams A History of Home

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226282091, 978-0226282091
      ISBN10: 0226282090

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "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)"

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