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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

Bradley, James

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Asian HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0316014001
ISBN13: 9780316014007
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Nov 8 2010
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.76
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
From the #1 bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys, a startling new look at the events that set the stage for WWII.

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's name.

In 2005, a century later, James Bradley traveled in the wake of Roosevelt's mission and discovered what had transpired in Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Beijing and Seoul.

In 1905, Roosevelt was bully-confident and made secret agreements that he though would secure America's westward push into the Pacific. Instead, he lit the long fuse on the Asian firecrackers that would singe America's hands for a century.

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