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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War |  | Author: James Bradley
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 9284
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0316008958
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.4
EAN: 9780316008952
ASIN: 0316008958
Publication Date: November 24, 2009
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This is about the history in detail of the exchanges in between the Baron Kaneko and Theodore Roosevelt, written by James Bradley
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 A Redundant Diatribe July 25, 2010
S. O. Brennan (Tequesta, FL USA)
This is a very shallow book. The author views racism as the driving force for all actions taken in American history. Not one good trait, original thought or iota of goodness is attributed to America or American politicians. At the same time James Bradley treats every other country and politician as the honorable victim. Unfortunately for Mr. Bradley history is not as simplistic as his redundant diatribe. Don't bother wasting your money on this book.
 Bradley's Subtle Satire Many Missed July 6, 2010
Robert M. Perrine (Virginia Beach, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bradley takes the veil off racial prejudice that shaped American history and, in doing so, helps explain America's difficulty (especially for "white" European descendants) in international dealings and assimilating races from all corners of the earth. Americans have journeyed from slavery, from segregation, to a black President, and Bradley shines light on that American journey, underscoring that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," but then we hypocritically act in entirely different ways. Passed down through generations, race discrimination lies at the heart of many of America's most important decisions, and Bradley, using Teddy Roosevelt as his example, reveals this sad truth, a truth that has been hiding just beneath the surface of historical writings, a truth Bradley puts so adroitly into perspective. Missing that message, quite a few reviewers cast Bradley as un-American for slandering such a great President. And so it goes: much of our factual history is engulfed in these partisan shrouds bordering on the revisionist history that George Orwell in his "1984" foresaw. Bradley's book is also a subtle satire, i.e., Theodore Roosevelt, the very man who criticized the failure of non-white races to evolve, just never evolved in his thinking much past the times of slavery.
Tabloid trash July 5, 2010
Gerald Siegel (Mililani Town, HI United States)
I borrowed this one because of the author's respectably written work on the Iwo Jima story. I can not believe all the cynical conspiracy theories that Bradley has woven together, in real purple prose, to portray a picture to suit his sharply biased and narrow focused view of Western imperialist expansion at the turn of the 20th century. He loves to create caricatures and loaded titles. The Filipino he calls our "Pacific Negro." Queen Victoria gets to be labeled Britain's opium "drug dealer." Cute. Unfair. Simplistic. But lurid enough for a tabloid history lesson. If you want to laugh at Bradley, and see how history can be constricted and oversimplified to pursue some pre digested theme and fill pages (he has no problem doing that), buy the book and have a cheap laugh. He covers a lot of ground helterskelter and has an enormous appetite to surround us with back and forth background and summaries of events, with snippets of this and that with poor organization of sequence. Lots of hearsay about who said what with dubious sources. Sloppy organization. Nothing to approach anything in the tradition of real historians. Should be filed not in history but in Fiction probably, you librarians out there...
I could not stomach Bradley's personal grand tour of history in the Pacific. What a waste, and from someone who can write better material than this. When and if he decides to grows up and do his homework and learn to write with care.
Could not make it past page 29 July 5, 2010
A. Johnson (PA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was given this book as a gift. Being a student of history, the book appeared interesting and I looked forward to reading it. Unfortunately, I did not get far before discovering that the author has a serious axe to grind against Western Civilization, the United States in particular, and the Founding Fathers specifically. His choice of words and the way he frames things reveals that this is less of a history book and more of a political correctness diatribe. Maybe Michael Moore was his ghost writer. I am very disappointed in this book and I will never read a book by this author again, he simply cannot be trusted. He's very naive to judge the past by the values of present. I wish I could share more but I had to put the book down--decided to cut my losses quickly.
The Imperial Cruise July 1, 2010
Shopping in Michigan (Michigan)
The Imperial Cruise was a real eye opener for me and answered a lot of questions about how our foreign policy got so screwed up. Bradley has written an interesting and thoroughly researched book about a group of men who determined the course of American expansion into Asia. Too bad that didn't know much about Asia, it's history and it's people.... This should be required reading for Americans serious about understanding the facts behind late 19th and early 20th Century America. An amazing book...
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