American Banker highlights lessons learned for the mortgage industry in an article and video interview with Vantage Point historian Eric John Abrahamson. The excerpt includes the story of how Howard Ahmanson bought his first savings and loan in 1947. Ahmanson went on to create the largest savings and loan in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
Copies of Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream are available from the University of California Press or any major online book retailer.