The Approaching Storm

<b>Winner of the 2022 award for biography from the American Society of Journalists and Authors<br><br>The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth century</b> <b>split over America’s response to World War I.</b><br> <b><br> </b>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.<br><br> 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. <i>The Approaching Storm</i> 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. <br>  <br> By turns a colorful triptych of three American icons who changed history and the engrossing story of the roots of World War I, <i>The Approaching Storm</i> is a surprising and important story of how and why the United States emerged onto the world stage.