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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1. Introduction
The Conventional Wisdom
So What?
Methodology
Caveats
Hickok Revisited
2. Purging the Rottenness from the System: The Blessed and the Damned in the Great Depression
The Liquidationists
The Eschatologists
The Babylonians
The Keynesians
3. “I Saw One Woman Faint”: Toward a Sociology of Panic
The Crash
“You People Must Have Faith”
Laboring under Too Much Emotion
4. Fear Itself: Polio, Unemployment, and Other Things on the Doorstep
“Don’t Ever Kiss Your Children or Allow Them to Be Kissed”
Fear of Falling
Hardy Perennials?
Glub Glub
Cosmic Triggers
5. Awe: Toward a Depression Sublime
The Last and Most Magnificent of Towers
Men at Work
Of Migrants and Grandmothers
Famous Men (and Women)
Downward to the Sublime
6. A Sordid, Futureless Mess? Love in Hard Times
Baby Face
“Married. That’s What We All Ought to Do.”
Double Solitaire
Love Stories
People … Still Gettin’ Married
7. What You Want to Hear: Hope in the Great Depression
Liar!
“He Sells Hope”
How to Win Friends
Think and Grow Rich
Abandon Hope
8. “The Hazards and Vicissitudes of Life”: The Emotional Life of the Social Security Act
The Old People’s Crusade
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
Social Security in America
Of Reservations and Reserves
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Bibliography
Index
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