The approaching storm : Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and their clash over America's future / Neil Lanctot.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 657 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780735210592
- 0735210594
- Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and their clash over America's future
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Influence
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 -- Influence
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1916
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth centurysplit over America's response to World War I.
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.
Following the outset of World War I in 1914, the views of these three titans splintered as they could not agree on how America should respond to what soon proved to be an unprecedented global catastrophe. The Approaching Storm is the story of three extraordinary leaders and how they debated, quarreled, and split over the role the United States should play in the world.
By turns a colorful triptych of three American icons who changed history and the engrossing story of the roots of World War I, The Approaching Storm is a surprising and important story of how and why the United States emerged onto the world stage.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [593]-642) and index.
Prologue: The rough rider, the reformer, and the scholar -- A more complicated world -- A war with which we have nothing to do -- A strict accountability -- A disgrace to the women of America -- Too proud to fight -- "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier" -- A second crisis -- Preparedness U.S.A. -- Out of the trenches by Christmas -- A world on fire -- A test of strength -- Teetering on the abyss -- Last stand of the Bull Moose -- Summer of anxiety -- An election and a peace move -- Peace in sight -- The final battle.
"By turns a colorful triptych of three American icons who changed history and the engrossing story of the roots of World War I, The Approaching Storm is a surprising and important story of how and why the United States emerged onto the world stage"-- Provided by publisher.
In the early years of the 20th century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams. 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. Following the outset of World War I in 1914, their views splintered as they could not agree on how America should respond to what soon proved to be an unprecedented global catastrophe. Lanctot tells how they debated, quarreled, and split over the role the United States should play in the world. Their clash became an important story of how and why the United States emerged onto the world stage. -- adapted from jacket