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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire an |
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Subject: | History: U.S.: 20th Century |
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Grade Level: | Adults | |
Catalog # | HIST39220 | |
Regular Price: Your Price: You Save: | $29.99 $26.95 $3.04 (10.14%) | |
Author: |
James Bradley |
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Binding: | Hardcover | |
Copyright Year: | 2009 | |
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Description: |
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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