This is a new book is the approaching storm.

Rousvel, Wilson Adams, the three progressives of the beginning of the 20th century, know each other very well and maneuver

in public.

Everything's in public.

They write letters, they're published.

The headlines are filled with what Wilson says, what TR says, what Jane Adams has done in Europe.

When she visited Vienna and commented on the horse ribs sticking out because they were starving,

that made it into the newspapers. When she sailed back to home, there was concern about her safety because of the German submarines. These were daily conversation pieces in the big city, especially in New York, which was 10% of

the population.

And America is now the richest country on the planet.

So all of these are not backwaters. These are major decisions. the winter of

of 1915 and we come to the winter of 1915 1916 and we start with Teddy

Roosevelt because he has been well you can fill in the blanks

of what he thinks about Wilson keep writing strong notes to Berlin and he's already

disdained Jane Adams as naive or worse. So in January and February of

1916, the wintertime, is he planning to run for the presidency? does he open relations again with the party he rejected?

Do they welcome him, Neil?

There were signs that he was moving in that direction.

He felt for a long time that no one was listening to him because that

that no one was listening to him because the great cause he had been involved

with since the war began was what they called preparedness,

being prepared militarily because our country was so limited in its military power.

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