The personal history of Mr. Hovnanian. who recently celebrated his 70th birthday. is itself a powerful evocation of the American dream. For it is the story of an immigrant to this country who. through honest hard work. has risen to the top of his field. Mr. Hovnanlan got his start in the building industry in Baghdad. Iraq. The son of Armenian immigrants. he began working for his fathers general contracting business at the age of 14. He would go on to become the major road builder in Baghdad. until the revolution in the late 1950s ruined his business and forced him to seek refuge in the United States. where his three brothers had come to study. The Hovnanian brothers managed to scrape up about $4.000 to start a construction business.
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