The Emotional Life of the Great Depression

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THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Copyright
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