The Crowded Hour

Caroline Winterer is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities and director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She specializes in American history of the pre-1900 period, especially the history of ideas, political theory, and the history of science. Her most recent book is American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason (Yale, 2016).

Caroline Winterer

The Story We Tell Ourselves: On Clay Risen’s “The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

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Caroline Winterer is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities and director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She specializes in American history of the pre-1900 period, especially the history of ideas, political theory, and the history of science. Her most recent book is American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason (Yale, 2016).

Caroline Winterer

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The Story We Tell Ourselves: On Clay Risen’s “The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century”