3/8: Early Steps to Becoming a Power: 3/8: The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future, by Neil Lanctot
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3/8: Early Steps to Becoming a Power: 3/8: 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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| 0:00.0 | This is CB as I in the world. I'm John Batcher. Neil Lankto's new book is the approaching |
| 0:07.4 | storm. Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams and their clash over America's future. This is progressivism, |
| 0:13.6 | which is understood as a domestic reform movement in the United States, but it comes up against |
| 0:19.0 | the world of crisis in Europe. The armies, the allies and the Axis, the allies, the Germans |
| 0:27.6 | are driven by the Kaiser. The English and the French don't have one leadership, |
| 0:34.0 | but they do have a concern to overwhelm the Germans and the Austrians. Russia is in the war |
| 0:40.4 | at this point, and the massacres are momentous. They're transforming Europe for the next 50, |
| 0:48.0 | 80 years because a generation is being exhausted and massacred. The best of the generation, |
| 0:53.7 | the volunteers, the young people from Paris, from London, from Berlin. We come now to the US |
| 1:02.0 | staying back until it's May 7, 1915. There has been an incident where a German submarine |
| 1:09.1 | caused the death of an American traversing the Atlantic, but the Lucidania is notable in that |
| 1:16.7 | the number of Americans who are killed and immediately introduces a crisis into the progressive. |
| 1:22.4 | Let's start with Wilson Neal. His first reaction for the dead American previously in the spring |
| 1:27.7 | was to write a sharp note to Germany. What is his reaction to Lucidania? Does he understand right |
| 1:34.4 | away it's a crisis and who is Colonel House? He does understand that this is a very troubling |
| 1:40.3 | situation. The previous death of an American citizen, Leon Thrasher, had really concerned people |
| 1:47.6 | in the administration, especially his Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan. Now with the |
| 1:52.7 | Lucidania, we have over 100 Americans being killed. It's multiplied considerably. There's going |
| 1:59.3 | to be immense pressure on Wilson to do something. It's going to be pressure from Colonel House. |
| 2:05.0 | We'll talk about Colonel House. Colonel House was his advisor and close friend who held this |
| 2:10.4 | incredible influence in the Wilson administration, even though he didn't have a formal title. |
| 2:14.4 | At that very moment, he was in Europe because Wilson had allowed him to go to Europe and |
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