2. Purging the Rottenness from the System: The Blessed and the Damned in the Great Depression
3. “I Saw One Woman Faint”: Toward a Sociology of Panic
4. Fear Itself: Polio, Unemployment, and Other Things on the Doorstep
5. Awe: Toward a Depression Sublime
6. A Sordid, Futureless Mess? Love in Hard Times
7. What You Want to Hear: Hope in the Great Depression
8. “The Hazards and Vicissitudes of Life”: The Emotional Life of the Social Security Act