This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

It is the summer of 1912 in a very hot convention in Chicago, Illinois.

A woman known throughout the world as an active and generous person, Jane Adams,

rises to nominate for president for the Progressive Party, a former president of the United

States, Theodore Roosevelt. This is a moment to begin to consider three great personalities of the early 20th century.

In a new book, The Approaching Storm, Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams, and their clash over America's future.

Neil Langtoe is the author. I welcome Neil, I congratulate him. And we need to define who these three people were in 1912 that associated all of them with

progressivism and they themselves were keen on that title, this new thinking in America.

Neil, congratulations and good evening.

Jane Adams at that moment.

Who was she?

And what did progressivism mean for her?

Good evening.

Good evening.

And thank you for having me on the show.

It's funny that Jane Adams is so forgotten today when in 1912 when my book begins,

she was probably one of the most well-known

women in America, maybe number one or number two. I think Helen Keller might have her beaten

out at the time. But she was this individual who had made her name by establishing Hallhouse

in Chicago, which was a settlement house to sort of minister to the poor and the immigrant community

in Chicago. And that put her on the map because that was something that really had not been

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