TheAmericans_TheDemocraticExperience

CONTENTS Changes BOOK ONE EVERYWHERE COMMUNITIES PART ONE The Go-Getters 1. “Gold from the Grass Roots Up” 2. Rituals of the Open Range 3. Private Wars for the Public Domain 4. Lawless Sheriffs and Honest Desperadoes 5. Rounding Up Rock Oil 6. Generalized Go-Getters: Lawyers 7. Exploiting the Federal Commodity: Divorce and Gambling 8. Crime As a Service Institution PART TWO Consumption Communities 9. A Democracy of Clothing 10. Consumers’ Palaces 11. Nationwide Customers 12. Goods Sell Themselves 13. How Farmers Joined Consumption Communities 14. Citifying the Country ......