An amazingly uncomplimentary history of Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and the US presence in Asia in the early 1900's. Made me want to dig further into Roosevelt's background because this is definitely not the image I had of him. It also would be interesting to read about this era from the Japanese perspective because Bradley's contention is that the US set ourselves up for WW-II and Pearl Harbor by the actions we took and encouraged in the early 1900s.