The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History Of Empire And War (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
I really question the credibility of this book. As I went deeper into it, the story seemed less and less trustworthy, instead becoming increasingly accusatory toward the intentions of the US government. To judge from this author, the US was not much better than a bloodthirsty, plundering nation which had no qualms about taking someone else's property. Granted that the US did not show the best character in its involvement with the liberation of the Phillipines from Spanish colonization. According to this author, the US behaved like a bunch of nazis and I do not think that is an accurate portrayal. Book isn't revisionist as other reviewers might suggest, but Teddy Roosevelt has become a sacred cow to the moonbat right, second only to Ronnie. Any criticism of TR gets the Rush & Hannity crowd's dogmatic hackles up. Facts are facts - no one went and revised TR's diaries or correspondence. Biggest problems are some of the factual errors and that the book is all over the place. Feels padded, with lots of pictures, big typeface, huge margins, etc. Maybe 10% is about the Taft/Alice Roosevelt cruise while the rest is a rehash of the shitty things the US did in pursuing its Pacific foreign policy around the turn of the century.
What do You think about The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History Of Empire And War (2009)?
Slower than most of his books but offers a deeper looking to what happened before WW2
—candy_heart18
I thought that this book was medicore and did not focus enough on the actual cruise.
—Ams
