1/8: Early Steps to Great Power: 1/8: The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future, by Neil Lanctot
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🗓️ 24 December 2022
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1/8: Early Steps to Great Power: 1/8: The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future, by Neil Lanctot
https://www.amazon.com/Approaching-Storm-Roosevelt-Wilson-Americas/dp/0735210594/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
In the early years of the twentieth century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams: two presidents and a social worker. Each took a different path to prominence, yet the three progressives believed the United States must assume a more dynamic role in confronting the growing domestic and international problems of an exciting new age.
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| 0:40.6 | It is the summer of 1912, |
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| 0:48.6 | A woman known throughout the world as an active and generous person, Jane Adles, |
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| 1:00.2 | A former president of the United States, |
| 1:02.8 | Theodore Roosevelt. |
| 1:04.6 | This is a moment to begin to consider three great personalities of the early 20th century. |
| 1:12.4 | In a new book, The Approaching Storm, |
| 1:15.2 | Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams, and their clash over America's future. |
| 1:19.6 | Neil Langto is the author. I welcome Neil. I congratulate him. |
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