List of FiguresList of TablesList of Abbreviations and Acronyms AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Crisis Politics Part I Crisis and Non-Crisis in American PoliticsChapter 1 Crisis as a Political KeywordChapter 2 What We Talk about When We Talk about CrisisChapter 3 Regressions, Reversals, and Red HerringsPart II Foreclosure Crises and Non-CrisesChapter 4 When Does a Crisis Begin? Chapter 5 How to Semantically Mask a Crisis Conclusion and Epilogue. Will These Crises Go to Waste? Appendices. Overview of Sources and MethodsA Working with Textual Data: Caveats and Considerations B Sources, Methods, and Coding Protocols C List of Main Sources of Data and Evidence D Supplementary Figures and Tables NotesBibliographyIndex