This is a new book is the approaching storm Roosevelt Adams, and their clash over America's future.

The Great War, then called, now we call it the first World War, the first of the tragedies

to tear apart Europe, ongoing, tearing apart sovereignty and boundaries.

These are the empires who engaged in challenges to each other for the 19th century

and then with the new technology of mass murder engaged in

frontier fighting beginning in the summer and fall of 1914 the front lines have now stabilized. It's early 1915.

America has

concerns of domestic politics and does not see any place in Europe for America.

However, Jane Adams, we will speak of her first, sees the massacres going on in Europe and

responds with peace conferences.

Or there's very careful language here. Let's begin in January of 1915. Jane Adams calls

the Women's Peace Party at the Willard Hotel. Is this popular with progressives, Neil?

Well, it's an interesting thing. This establishment of what's called the Women's Peace Party,

many American women seem to be okay with it and I think she tried to cast a fairly wide net because she invited conservative American women to attend this conference like for example women in the daughters of the American Revolution and she also

invited women who would probably be seen on the fairly far left. So the Women's Peace Party was

seen as almost a pressure group for peace in the United States.

I think it was accepted by most people as long as they weren't getting into fairly controversial

issues or really questioning the direction of American

foreign policy. But once Jane Adams and some of her followers start to do that and

eventually they're going to go to Europe to attend another conference.

Then you're going to start seeing a great deal of criticism of Adams and really her

reputation is going to suffer in the United States a great deal because she is seen as moving beyond her place as sort of a as I said a social worker or someone who was concerned about you know the how people are are living their lives comfortably at health

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