Thursday, January 21st, 7pm

Bestselling author of Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers JAMES BRADLEY will speak about and sign his new book, The Imperial Cruise.

In his new book, bestselling author James Bradley takes a startling new look at the events that set the stage for World War II.

In the summer of 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched the largest diplomatic mission in American history. Led by Secretary of War, and future president, William Howard Taft, the group traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific. Along for the ride was Teddy’s glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice, a media darling who was there as a distraction for reporters, and for good reason. During this trip, Taft, on Roosevelt’s behalf, would negotiate a series of secret—and wholly unconstitutional—agreements that would lay the groundwork for America’s Pacific engagement. These invisible treaties would lead to World War II in the Pacific, the triumph of communism in China, the Korean War, and, within decades, tens of millions dead.

A century later, James Bradley traveled in the wake of Roosevelt’s imperial cruise, rediscovering what actually transpired in Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Beijing, and Seoul.

James Bradley is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers and the son of one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.

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