The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
James Bradley
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
James Bradley
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 later result in a number of devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, and the Communist Revolution in China. One hundred years later, James Bradley retraces that epic voyage and discovers the remarkable truth about America s vast imperial past and its world shaking consequences.
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