The Crisis of the Old Order

by Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780618340859
• ISBN10: 0618340858
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-09
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

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 Old Order covers the Jazz Age and the rise and fall of the cult of business. For a season, prosperity seemed permanent, but the illusion came to an end when Wall Street crashed in October 1929. Public trust in the wisdom of business leadership crashed too. With a dramatist"s eye for vivid detail and a scholar"s respect for accuracy, Schlesinger brings to life the era that gave rise to FDR and his New Deal and changed the public face of the United States forever.

Author Biography

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Mariner Edition	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Prologue: 1933	p. 1
The Golden Day
Darkness at Noon	p. 11
The New Nationalism	p. 17
The New Freedom	p. 27
Nationalizing the New Freedom	p. 32
Euphoria and Collapse	p. 37
The Politics of Prosperity
Main Street in the White House	p. 49
The Ethos of Normalcy	p. 54
The Economics of Republicanism	p. 61
The Age of Business	p. 71
Prophet of the New Era	p. 77
Outside Looking in
The Politics of Frustration	p. 93
Protest on the Countryside	p. 105
The Stirrings of Labor	p. 111
The Struggle for Public Power	p. 117
The Campaign of 1928	p. 125
The Philosophy of Liberalism	p. 130
The Revolt of the Intellectuals	p. 145
The Valley of Darkness
Crash	p. 155
The New Era at Bay	p. 161
The Contagion of Fear	p. 166
Business at the Great Divide	p. 177
The Agenda of Reform	p. 184
Farewell to Reform	p. 204
Climax in Washington	p. 224
The Crisis of 1932	p. 248
The Politics of Depression
The Democrats Prepare	p. 273
Decision in Chicago	p. 295
The Happy Warrior
Childhood on the Hudson	p. 317
Testing in Washington	p. 344
Trial by Fire	p. 368
Responsibility in Albany	p. 386
The Darkling Plain
Campaign for America	p. 413
A Nation Waits	p. 440
Confusion in the Void	p. 456
Notes	p. 489
Index	p. 545
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