The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 - 557 páginas
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.

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1933
2
vii
11
IV
15
The New Nationalism
17
The New Freedom
27
Nationalizing the New Freedom
33
Main Street in the White House
49
The Economics of Republicanism
61
The Agenda of Reform
184
Farewell to Reform
204
Climax in Washington
224
The Crisis of 1932
257
The Democrats Prepare
273
Decision in Chicago
295
VI
304
317
344

The Politics of Frustration
93
Protest on the Countryside
105
The Stirrings of Labor
111
The Struggle for Public Power
117
Crash
155
20
161
Business at the Great Divide
177
Responsibility in Albany
386
Campaign for America
439
Confusion in the Void
456
The Philosophy of Liberalism
503
489
528
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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.

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