5/8: Early Steps to Becoming a Power: 5/8: The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future, by Neil Lanctot
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5/8: Early Steps to Becoming a Power: 5/8: 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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| 0:36.2 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm visiting with Neil Langto. |
| 0:40.8 | His new book is The Approaching Storm. |
| 0:43.3 | This is Progressiveism at the beginning of the 20th century. |
| 0:46.7 | Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams, and their clash over America's future. |
| 0:51.1 | America is hanging back from the Great War. |
| 0:54.9 | The massacres in Europe, hanging back. |
| 0:57.6 | Wilson has said, in 1915, he's too proud to fight. |
| 1:02.0 | He sends strong notes of protest to Berlin. |
| 1:05.9 | Each time there are Americans who die in attacks by submarines against |
| 1:12.0 | passenger liners. |
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