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  • Nathaniel Deutsch
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Inventing America's Worst Family
This chapter is in the book Inventing America's Worst Family
© 2020 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2020 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Illustrations VII
  4. Foreword IX
  5. Acknowledgments XIII
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1. How Oscar McCulloch Discovered the Ishmaelites 19
  8. 2. In Darkest Indianapolis 49
  9. 3. How the Other Half Lives 72
  10. 4. The Ishmaelites and the Menace of the Feebleminded 102
  11. 5. The Tribal Twenties 130
  12. 6. Lost-Found Nation 155
  13. 7. The Ishmaels 172
  14. Afterword 201
  15. Notes 205
  16. Selected Bibliography 231
  17. Index 243
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520942707-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Illustrations VII
  4. Foreword IX
  5. Acknowledgments XIII
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1. How Oscar McCulloch Discovered the Ishmaelites 19
  8. 2. In Darkest Indianapolis 49
  9. 3. How the Other Half Lives 72
  10. 4. The Ishmaelites and the Menace of the Feebleminded 102
  11. 5. The Tribal Twenties 130
  12. 6. Lost-Found Nation 155
  13. 7. The Ishmaels 172
  14. Afterword 201
  15. Notes 205
  16. Selected Bibliography 231
  17. Index 243
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