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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor.

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 Langto 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 progressives

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 progressives 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 Hull House in Chicago,

which was a settlement house to sort of minister to the poor and the immigrant

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