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Nov. 15: Alumni Book Club Meeting Features The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley
November 15, 2011
Date: Tuesday, November 15
Time: 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: MMC, Regina Peruggi Room (2nd Floor, Main Building)
Cost: Free (Refreshments and snacks will be served)
Contact: If you would like to RSVP, please email sluchs@mmm.edu or call (212) 517-0458.
Join the Marymount Manhattan College Alumni Book Club for a discussion of James Bradley’s The Imperial Cruise. On the success of his two best-selling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him. In 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his daughter Alice, and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China and Korea with the intent of forging an agreement to divide up Asia. This clandestine pact lit the fuse that would—decades later—result in a number of devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War and the communist revolution in China. In 2005, James Bradley retraced that epic voyage and discovered the remarkable truth about America's vast imperial past.
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