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The imperial cruise : a secret history of empire and war
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The imperial cruise : a secret history of empire and war

Author: James Bradley
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly forge a series of agreements that divided up Asia. At the time, Roosevelt was bully-confident about America's future on the continent. But these secret pacts lit the fuse that would--decades  Read more...
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Named Person: Theodore Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt; William H Taft; Theodore Roosevelt; William H Taft
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James Bradley
ISBN: 9780316008952 0316008958 9780316014007 0316014001
OCLC Number: 430522360
Description: 387 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: History repeating --
Civilization follows the Sun --
Benevolent intentions --
Pacific Negroes --
Houles --
Honorary Aryans --
Playing Roosevelt's game --
The Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia --
The imperial cruise --
Roosevelt's open and closed doors --
Incognito in Japan --
Sellout in Seoul --
Following the Sun.
Responsibility: James Bradley.

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From the author of the no 1 bestselling Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys, a startling new look at the events that set the stage for WWII  Read more...

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PRAISE FOR THE IMPERIAL CRUISE: "Incendiary...[The Imperial Cruise] is startling enough to reshape conventional wisdom about Roosevelt's presidency." -- New York Times "A provocative study...What is Read more...

 
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