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(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015). 417 pp. $35 (cloth). James Bradley, author of the famous popular history (and major motion picture) Flags of Our Fathers , has continued to plumb the legacy of his family’s war record, this time taking on the wisdom and necessity of the u.s . war against Japan. He does not mince words: Washington’s decision to cut off Japan’s access to oil in the autumn of 1941 was a foolish decision and forced an otherwise reticent Japan into attacking u.s . naval forces at Pearl Harbor. This decision, he writes, “thrust America into an unwanted Asian war,” for which his “father and millions of others” need not have risked or sacrificed their lives (p. 8). According to Bradley, the root of the problem was the obsessive and wholly unrealistic American attachment to China and (in his words) the “Noble Chinese Peasant.” Ultimately most concerned with the impulses that drove the Roosevelt administration’s Pacific strategy in the 1930s and 1940s, he begins with a chapter on Warren Delano, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s grandfather, who made a fortune in the opium business in China in the mid-19 th Century. Like so many other Westerners
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Oct 14, 2015
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