Update:
When I first started re-reading this book, I had no recollection of reading it before. in this case, I believe that listening to it as an audio-book did me a disservice. Seeing the pictures and the incontrovertible evidence which is difficult if not impossible to convey in an audio-book. I will say that Bradley's obvious bias made it difficult for me to continue. As an amateur historian looking at the same primary source documents, I believe that Bradley came to an accurate conclusion. He presented it in a much less than objective manner with his word choice.
The overall format of the book, history framed within the context of the Pacific voyage of Taft and Princess Alice, worked much better in print than in audio-book.
For once, a second reading of the book improved my opinion.

I was incredibly disappointed with this book. My previous experience with Bradley's work had been positive. This book throws the light of suspicion over his other work. Not only is the book structurally weak (the title imposes a structure of a voyage taken by Taft and Alice Roosevelt yet infrequently describes this voyage in the narrative) it positively reeks of bias. Everything done by Americans or white Europeans was obviously wrong and led to the horrible events of World War II, according to the author. Not only is this patently false, Bradley forces himself to perform logic gymnastics. Honestly, I'm surprised that a reputable publisher would publish this book at all,'much less under the guise of reputable history. It is nothing of the sort.