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Animal spirits : the American pursuit of vitality from camp meeting to Wall Street
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- Summary
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"A master historian's retrieval of the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today"--
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- Creator
- Jackson Lears
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 449 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374290221, 0374290229
- OCLC
- on1373844788
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Between body and soul -- The madness and mildness of money -- Toward a pulsating universe -- Feverish finance, revival religion, and war -- The reconfiguration of value -- The apotheosis of energy -- Another civilization -- The vitalist moment : 1913 and after -- Race, sex, and power -- Numbers and flow -- The only thing we have to fear -- The triumph and failure of management -- Epilogue: a fierce green fire