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4/8: Early Steps to Becoming a Power: 4/8: 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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4/8: Early Steps to Becoming a Power: 4/8: 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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0:38.4

Storm. Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams, the three progressives of the beginning of the 20th century.

0:43.5

Know each other very well and maneuver in public. Everything's in public. They write letters.

0:48.4

They're published. They headlines are all filled with what Wilson says, what TR says, what

0:54.0

Jane Adams is done in Europe. When she visited Vienna and commented on the horse rib sticking

1:00.2

out because they were starving. That made it into the newspapers. When she sailed back

1:04.8

to home, there was concern about her safety because of the German submarines. These were

1:10.2

daily conversation pieces in the big city, especially in New York, which was 10% of

1:15.0

the population. America is now the richest country on the planet. All of these are not

1:21.9

backwaters. These are major decisions. We come to the winter of 1915, 1916. We start with

1:31.2

Teddy Roosevelt because he has been, well, you can fill in the blanks of what he thinks

1:35.2

about Wilson. Keep writing strong notes to Berlin. He's already disdained Jane Adams

1:41.4

as naive or worse. In January and February of 1916, the winter time is he planning to run

1:50.5

for the presidency? Does he open relations again with the party he rejected? Do they welcome

1:56.8

him, Neil? There were signs that he was moving in that direction. He felt for a long time

2:02.9

that no one was listening to him because the great cause he had been involved with since

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