The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780735210592)

Winner of the 2022 award for biography from the American Society of Journalists and Authors

The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth century split 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.

Author: Neil Lanctot
ISBN-10: 0735210594
ISBN-13: 9780735210592
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.46w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/16/2021
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021
Booklist 09/15/2021 pg. 10
Library Journal 10/01/2021 pg. 92