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Building home
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ISBN: 0520273753 0520953428 1283860309 9780520953420 9780520273757 9781283860307 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley

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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 nation's 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 nation's most successful entrepreneurs of the managed economy -Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson. Eric John Abrahamson deftly connects these three strands as he chronicles Ahmanson's rise against the background of the postwar housing boom and the growth of L.A. during the same period. As a sun-tanned yachtsman and a cigar-smoking financier, the Omaha-born 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 middle-class 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 mortgage-led financial crisis, Ahmanson's life offers powerful insights into an era when the widespread hope of homeownership was just beginning to take shape.

The culture broker
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ISBN: 0520224957 0520925556 9786612356193 1282356194 1433708795 9780520925557 9781429494564 1429494565 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. London University of California Press

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Franklin Murphy? It's not a name that is widely known; even during his lifetime the public knew little of him. But for nearly thirty years, Murphy was the dominant figure in the cultural development of Los Angeles. Behind the scenes, Murphy used his role as confidant, family friend, and advisor to the founders and scions of some of America's greatest fortunes-Ahmanson, Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, and Annenberg-to direct the largesse of the wealthy into cultural institutions of his choosing. In this first full biography of Franklin D. Murphy (1916-994), Margaret Leslie Davis delivers the compelling story of how Murphy, as chancellor of UCLA and later as chief executive of the Times Mirror media empire, was able to influence academia, the media, and cultural foundations to reshape a fundamentally provincial city. The Culture Broker brings to light the influence of L.A.'s powerful families and chronicles the mixed motives behind large public endeavors. Channeling more than one billion dollars into the city's arts and educational infrastructure, Franklin Murphy elevated Los Angeles to a vibrant world-class city positioned for its role in the new era of global trade and cross-cultural arts.

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Arts. --- Charities. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Murphy, Franklin D. --- Museums. --- Arts --- Museums --- Cosmopolitanism --- Charities --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- Education --- History & Archaeology --- Social Sciences --- United States Local History --- Educational Institutions --- History --- Murphy, Franklin D., --- University of California, Los Angeles --- Times Mirror Company --- Officials and employees --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Cultural policy. --- Civilization --- Alms and almsgiving --- Benevolent institutions --- Charitable institutions --- Endowed charities --- Institutions, Charitable and philanthropic --- Philanthropy --- Poor relief --- Private nonprofit social work --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Societies, etc. --- Times Mirror Co. --- Times Mirror (Firm) --- UCLA --- Los Anheles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Tʻien-shih-chih-chʻeng (Calif.) --- Tianshizhicheng (Calif.) --- Los Andzsheles (Calif.) --- Lo-shan-chi (Calif.) --- Loshanji (Calif.) --- Angeles (Calif.) --- Ciudad de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo Los Angeles (Calif.) --- City of Los Angeles (Calif.) --- LA (Calif.) --- L.A. (Calif.) --- City of Angels (Calif.) --- لوس أنجلوس (Calif.) --- Lūs Anjilūs (Calif.) --- Los Anceles (Calif.) --- Горад Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Horad Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос Анджелис (Calif.) --- Los Andzhelis (Calif.) --- Λος ̕Αντζελες (Calif.) --- Los Antzeles (Calif.) --- Los-Anĝeleso (Calif.) --- 로스앤젤레스 (Calif.) --- Losŭ Aenjellesŭ (Calif.) --- לוס אנג'לס (Calif.) --- Angelopolis (Calif.) --- Losandželosa (Calif.) --- Los Andželas (Calif.) --- Лос Анџелес (Calif.) --- Los Andželes (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス市 (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu-shi (Calif.) --- Los Anjeles (Calif.) --- Лос Андьелес (Calif.) --- Los Andʹeles (Calif.) --- Los Anxheles (Calif.) --- Лос Анђелес (Calif.) --- Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Calif.) --- Los Angeles City (Calif.) --- La La Land (Calif.) --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Poor --- Social service --- Endowments --- Political science --- Internationalism --- Public institutions --- Cabinets of curiosities --- Humanities --- Services for --- Λος Αντζελες (Calif.) --- California. University of California, Los Angeles --- Kaliforniĭskiĭ universitet (Los-Andzheles, SShA) --- Lo-shan-chi Chia-chou ta hsüeh --- UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) --- University of California at Los Angeles --- University of California (Los Angeles, USA) --- University of California (System). University of California, Los Angeles --- University of California (System) --- University of California (1868-1952). Southern Branch --- Arts, Primitive --- Murphy, Franklin David, --- academia. --- ahmanson. --- angeles county museum. --- annenberg. --- california history. --- california university system. --- california. --- chancellor. --- college. --- cultural development. --- educational infrastructure. --- ford. --- franklin murphy. --- higher education. --- industrial revolution. --- industry. --- los angeles. --- media. --- mellon. --- newspaper. --- nonfiction. --- robber barons. --- rockefeller. --- times mirror. --- ucla. --- university. --- urban development. --- wealth.

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