“Across the country the banks of the nation had gradually shuttered their windows and locked their doors. The very machinery of the American economy seemed to be coming to a stop. The rich and fertile nation, overflowing with natural wealth in its fields and forests and mines, equipped with unsurpassed technology, endowed with boundless resources in its men and women, lay stricken.”
Published the year Franklin Roosevelt died, the Crisis of the Old Order is the first of four volumes interpreting the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of our time in terms of the controversial figure who became its spokesman and its symbol.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. Book of the month club edition (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 557 pages. Dust jacket in good condition and in protector. Boards clean with minimal edge wear but some bumping to corners. Binding tight and square. Owner’s name written on end papers. Pages tanned. Nice copy.
