Crisis of the Old Order by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, 1957 BOTM Edition

Preserved in the original dust jacket. This is the Book of the Month 1957 edition of the first volume in one of historian Schlesinger Jr's most prestigious works documenting the Great Depression and the rise of Franklin Roosevelt. The book details the political, economic, and social history of the period, focusing on the "cult of business" that dominated the Jazz Age, the 1929 stock market crash, and the subsequent crisis that set the stage for the New Deal.