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Title: How Wall Street, Hoover and McArthur conspired to cover up for the emperor
Review: This book on the 'history' of the dynasty that rules Japan suffers from its own sloppy sensationalism. It is not entirely useless, but nearly so. It kills its interesting subject by its manic devotion to conspiracy theories.Probably the authors are entirely innocent of the cover blunder, but it is somehow symptomatic: the cover photo is not even a Japanese, not remotely a member of the dynasty that gave the book its title, but a Chinese and probably the last emperor, Pu Yi, the monarch of Manchukuo, poor man.Seagrave wrote some interesting popular history books on China, mainly his Soong Dynasty and his book about the Empress Dowager are worth reading as an introduction to 20th century China. But forget this Japan book. Better to try Herbert Bix on Hirohito (who, by the way, does not even mention Hoover in the context of Hirohito's post WW2 predicaments).
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