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TR LESSON LEARNED IN 1916: THAT THE GOP DOES NOT EASILY UNITE AFTER FRAGMENTING SINCE 2020: 3/8: The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future, by Neil Lanctot

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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TR LESSON LEARNED IN 1916: THAT THE GOP DOES NOT EASILY UNITE AFTER FRAGMENTING SINCE 2020: 3/8: 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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Neil Lankto's new book is The Approaching Storm.

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Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams, and their clash over America's future. This is progressiveism, which is understood as a domestic

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reform movement in the United States, but it comes up against the world of crisis in Europe.

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The armies, the Allies and the Axis, the Allies, the

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Germans are driven by the Kaiser. The English and the French don't have one leadership, but they do have a concern to overwhelm the Germans and the Austrians.

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Russia is in the war at this point, and the massacres are momentous they're transforming

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Europe for the next 50-80 years because a generation is being exhausted and

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massacred the best of the generation, the volunteers, the young people

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from Paris, from London, from Berlin.

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And we come now to the U.S. staying back until it's May 7th, 1915.

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There has been an incident where a German submarine caused the death of an American

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traversing the Atlantic.

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