jane adams. our friend jane adams. she writes, life in the settlement discovers above all it has been called the extraordinary pliability of human nature. a phrase she probably got from john stuart mill. and it seems impossible to set any bounds to any ideal deal -- to the moral capability that might unfold from educational and civic institutions. the point that we have been following all semester is that within progressivism there was this strong sense that in an industrialized united states large problems needed to be addressed, but that also with the development or the discovery of new knowledge, new ways of understanding, that these problems could be addressed, and that's a big deal, right? reforms could be enacted in society, in the lives of those living in the united states to -- could be made better, happier, more fulfilled. that in a nutshell is what we have been doing all semester. now think of people born in, say 1840, what they had witnessed by the time the united states became involved in world war i in 191

he was nursed by jane adams who would win a nobel prize herself as a social worker from hole house in chicago. the whole left at that time, progressives got behind t.r. in '12. once he loses that he got a little depressed. wilson's in and he goes for another brutal expedition. this time to south america to the amazon, to brazil traveling down a river over 600 miles river of no return. and shows amazing fortitude. but also perhaps immaturity by even going. he said, it's my last chance to be a boy. but he ended up trying to unlock a couple of boats and cut his leg. and that open wound caused him to get infection. and he developed a malaria of some kind, fever, almost died down this. was actually asked to be left to die. not even -- just a man in his 50s at this point. comes back. and everybody here in new york said he was never the same. he was constantly having leg problems, constantly -- his vitality had largely evaporated. and it evaporates more when he has a son killed in the first world war. theodore roosevelt was an early and ardent supporter of going in and taking it to the hun,

it's hard for me to envision having a conversation with jane adams who would be entrancing and wonderful and things like that, but i can see sitting and having a conversation with f. scott fitzgerald somewhere in a cafÉ here in savannah. he's a modern person. and the '20s is a modern decade. it's when we became, if you will recognizable. so it was an exciting period to deal with. and the book all books have a kind of a spine to them. you have of to have something to hold it together. some people call these things tropes. i never knew what that meant. but for me, it was the year 1927. and, of course, in that year david of sarnov founded nbc the first national radio network and a guy named fred french built the first terrifically tall building. it still stands on fifth avenue north of 42nd street. 27, of course is the year of charles lindbergh's flight from new york to paris and his return and the parade they had for him in new york. four million people show up for this parade. it's a fantastic time. fitzgerald perhaps captured it best. he writes this: in that year, he says, the tempo of t

it's hard for me to envision having a conversation with jane adams who would be entrancing and wonderful and things like that, but i can see sitting and having a conversation with f. scott fitzgerald somewhere in a cafÉ here in savannah. he's a modern person. and the '20s is a modern decade. it's when we became, if you will recognizable. so it was an exciting period to deal with. and the book all books have a kind of a spine to them. you have of to have something to hold it together. some people call these things tropes. i never knew what that meant. but for me, it was the year 1927. and, of course, in that year david of sarnov founded nbc the first national radio network and a guy named fred french built the first terrifically tall building. it still stands on fifth avenue north of 42nd street. 27, of course is the year of charles lindbergh's flight from new york to paris and his return and the parade they had for him in new york. four million people show up for this parade. it's a fantastic time. fitzgerald perhaps captured it best. he writes this: in that year, he says, the tempo of t