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Información de la obraThe Imperial Cruise por James Bradley
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() Wow. The book presents a totally different (and very negative) view of TR and Taft. Can this be true? Did Roosevelt's racism and reckless, beligerent and illegal foreign policy lead to WWII? Was his public persona a complete sham? Clearly TR was far from perfect, but this book seems extreme overreach to me. Bradley's research offers quite a contradictory view of Teddy Roosevelt and how his policies may have laid the groundwork for Japanese expansion leading up to World War II. It's certainly not the standard text you learned from your elementary school texts. Bradley's perspective on T.R. is consistent with some other historians who agrue that his "rough rider" reputation was due to his self promotion, and not earned by his actions. Probably offensive to some, in that it offers a less than exemplary viewpoint of U.S. policies, but it's certainly an interesting and thought provoking book.
What could have been a clear, sharp revision of the Roosevelt myth is hampered by a clumsy attack... Bradley’s so incensed by Roosevelt’s foreign policies – especially with regards to Japan – that he forgets to organize his thoughts. Mr. Bradley, the author of “Flags of Our Fathers,” does not simply cite Roosevelt’s egregious talk. He presents this much-ignored aspect of Roosevelt’s thinking with sharp specificity (“I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic that I would like to wipe its people off the face of the earth,” Roosevelt wrote in 1906) and then goes on to make a much more damaging point, angrily and persuasively connecting Roosevelt’s race-based foreign policy miscalculations in Asia. His thesis in “The Imperial Cruise” is startling enough to reshape conventional wisdom about Roosevelt’s presidency. Distinciones
Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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