"Our" tropical lands: reinventions of California and Florida after the Civil War -- A climate for health and wealth: the lure of tropical leisure on American soil -- The fruits of labor: boosterist visions of republican renewal and semi-tropical agriculture -- Desert and swamp: the conquest of...

"The three faces of risk" -- "Another day older and deeper in debt" -- "Locking down an American workforce" -- "Uncle Sam doesn't want you" -- "Making disaster pay" -- "Two gilded ages" -- "American labor and the great depression" -- "The age of acquiescence" -- "The limousine liberal's family...

Cover -- Power and Willpower in the American Future -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: The American Future: Problems of Primacy, Policy, and Purpose -- Primacy Past and Present -- Responses to Decline -- Information, Socialization, and National...