John Marsh Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself, Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. In addition to these, he is the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941.

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• 1: The Emotional Life of the Great Depression 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

John Marsh Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself, Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. In addition to these, he is the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941.

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• 1: The Emotional Life of the Great Depression 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

John Marsh Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself, Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. In addition to these, he is the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941.

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• 1: The Emotional Life of the Great Depression 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