Basically a political diatribe by a writer committed to condemning Roosevelt by judging him under current politically correct standards with no sense at all about the era and mentality of the time. There is actually not much about the cruise but plenty about how malevolent Teddy Roosevelt was.

Bradley, again captures my attention and bombards me with questions about the history of the Pacific War. Only this time, the history goes farther back, past the beginnings of Japanese expansion, and to the colonization of the Philippines, the Conquest of Hawaii and westernization of Feudal Japan. Again providing us with extensive research, Bradley makes us think about our nation's past and how it's actions are both in the wrong in today's eyes, but called for in it's time. Not only does it do that, but it expands our ever-growing knowledge. To history-lovers like myself, this is a gold mine. No other book serves to provide a full history of the US presence in the Pacific and can relate it to both World War II (Bradley's first topic of study) and today. I very much enjoyed this book and I hope you do too. I highly recommend it.