Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xii*Chapter 1. "Our Poor Distressed Country", pg. 3*Chapter 2. The Necessities of State Aid, pg. 32*Chapter 3. An Imaginative Reinterpretation of the Law, pg. 47*Chapter 4. "Railroad Fevers" and the Party Line at the Capitols, pg. 63*Chapter 5. The Enemy Within: Parochialism Run Amok, pg. 85*Chapter 6. Winning Friends and Influencing Legislation, pg. 98*Chapter 7. "Let the Representatives ... Have a Hand in It.", pg. 121*Chapter 8. Testing the Gospel of Prosperity, 1870-1871, pg. 133*Chapter 9. "They Must Stand Aside ...": The Republican Mission in Peril, pg. 146*Chapter 10. Friends in Need on Capitol Hill, pg. 163*Chapter 11. Friends in Deed on Wall Street? The Enemy Without, pg. 175*Chapter 12. Railroad Ties and Bonds: Construction, Credit, and the "Consumptive Purse", pg. 185*Chapter 13. The Alabama & Chattanooga Catastrophe, pg. 213*Chapter 14. "They Have Thus Prostituted ..." : Republicanism Riven, pg. 237*Chapter 15. "A War Now Begins between These Roads and the People," 1873, pg. 250*Chapter 16. "Men are Giting Desperate ...": The Panic, Collapse, and Survival of the Gospel of Prosperity, 1873-1880, pg. 268*Coda "And Was Jerusalem Builded Here ?", pg. 299*Appendix. Could the Democrats Have Done Better?, pg. 303*Abbreviations, pg. 307*Bibliography, pg. 339*Index, pg. 353