The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Book Overview

The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, volume one of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series, is the first of three books that interpret the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the early twentieth century in terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the spokesman and symbol of the period. Portraying the United States from the Great War to the Great Depression, The Crisis of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618340858
• ISBN13: 9780618340859
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book, well written and reasearched.

"The Crisis of the Old Order" is well written and researched. It captures the times and era of great depression and the stock market crash of 1929, so vivdly that no other book on the subject can compare to it. This book is definetly worth buying and reading, also check out the other two volumes of the trilogy, "The Coming of the New Deal" and "The Politics of Upheaval."