1st Edition
Home Ownership in America A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States
Introduction
1. Own Your Own Home
2. A Desirable Social Goal
3. A New Order
4. The World’s Best Buy
5. The Threshold of the Good Life
6. America’s Biggest Business
7. A Fading Fantasy
8. Opening Doors
9. The Ownership Society
10. A House Divided
Bibliography
Biography
Lawrence R. Samuel is a Miami-based author and independent scholar. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and is the author of many books including Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century (Routledge, 2023), Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America (Routledge, 2022), and The American Middle Class: A Cultural History (Routledge, 2014).
"A fascinating text that covers 100 years of housing ownership in the United States through wars, depressions, recessions, and times of prosperity. Home ownership as an integral part of the American dream is explained and explored from different angles that most of us often overlook. An interesting read for all.”
Eli Beracha, Director of the Tibor and Sheila Hollo School of Real Estate at Florida International University
"Home Ownership in America takes a deep dive into one of the most compelling aspects of the American Dream: the ownership of one's own home. Larry Samuel provides a lively, insightful and innovative interdisciplinary examination of the hopes, experiences, and limitations of American home ownership over the last century."Elaine Tyler May, Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota
