Psychiana man : a mail-order prophet, his followers, and the power of belief in hard times /
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| Author / Creator: | Schrand, Brandon R., author. |
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| Imprint: | Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2021] |
| Description: | xv, 397 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12769637 |
Table of Contents:
- A Note on the Sources
- Prologue
- Part I. Outlier: 1886-1928
- 1. No Man Knew His History
- 2. Vagabond
- Part II. "Dear Friend & Student": 1928-1934
- 3. From the Ashes
- 4. Ad Man
- 5. "Keyed Up to a High Pitch"
- 6. Occult Appeal
- 7. "The Shackles Are Off"
- 8. Toil
- 9. "Does the LAW Work?
- 10. "At the Hour You Took Command"
- 11. Faith Factory
- 12. "The Magic Wand"
- 13. Under the Banner of Advertising
- 14. No Narrow Creed
- 15. Passport to Trouble
- 16. "There Will Be No Peace in Our Household"
- Part III. Messiah on Trial: 1934-1937
- 17. American Spectacle
- 18. "That We Should Enter Again into Our Partnership"
- 19. "The Suffering of Humanity"
- 20. Prosecution
- 21. On Trial
- 22. "Psychiana is With Me"
- 23. The Marksmen
- 24. "A Pack of Bloody Hounds"
- 25. "Out in these By-Ways and Hedges"
- 26. "Redeemed from the Jaws of Doubts and Agnosticism"
- 27. "Criminal Action"
- 28. "The Child is the Father of Man"
- 29. The Lion of Idaho
- 30. Letter from Bledington
- 31. Loyalty
- 32. Havana
- 33. "It is Terrible Discouraging Here"
- 34. Return
- 35. "Through the Bright Spot, Out Into Somewhere"
- 36. "My Road is Pretty Rocky"
- 37. Be Quiet
- 38. Fallout
- Part IV. Through War to God 1937-1945
- 39. Radio Psychiana
- 40. "You Are God's Moses to Me"
- 41. "On the Ether Waves & the Cosmic Rays"
- 42. "I Used to Go to the Hills and Pray to that God in the Sky"
- 43. Convention
- 44. "The Meanest Swindler in the World"
- 45. Looking the Part
- 46. Winter War
- 47. "It Seems Terrible Hard at the Present Time"
- 48. "The Cobbler Mustn't Go Beyond His Last"
- 49. "This Imperishable Yardstick"
- 50. Psychiana Blitzkrieg
- 51. "The Day I Answered Your Advertisement"
- 52. Drive
- 53. The Poet
- 54. "What Do You Want?"
- 55. Vision Quest
- 56. "Frankly Speaking"
- 57. The Pilot
- 58. Prophet and Mystic
- 59. A Mad World
- Part V. Requiem for a Prophet 1945-1952
- 60. Psychiana in the Nuclear Age
- 61. The Gathering Storm
- Epilogue: "A Fortune to Share with the World"
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
