Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity

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