02739cam a2200373 4500 238627623 TxAuBib 20140808120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316143332 0316143332 B002P8N0UC Amazon f6399736-f7cd-41ff-b59a-f693ebf1b0b4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 235424 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bradley, James, 1954- The Imperial Cruise [Bridges eBook] : A Secret History of Empire and War. Little, Brown and Company, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.</p>. Nonfiction. Military. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:02. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=f6399736-f7cd-41ff-b59a-f693ebf1b0b4 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/F63/997/36/ImperialCruise9780316039666.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F6399736-F7CD-41FF-B59A-F693EBF1B0B4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/F63/997/36/ImperialCruise9780316039666.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F6399736-F7CD-41FF-B59A-F693EBF1B0B4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/F63/997/36/ImperialCruise9780316039666.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F6399736-F7CD-41FF-B59A-F693EBF1B0B4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)