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03233aam a22005058i 4500 001 3DCACB8A447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221005010052 008 220603s2022 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022026045 020 $a 0358064740 020 $a 9780358064749 040 $a NIC/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 082 00 $a 327.7305209/043 $2 23/eng/20220608 100 1 $a Kemper, Steve, $e author. 245 10 $a Our man in Tokyo : $b an American ambassador and the countdown to Pearl Harbor / $c Steve Kemper. 263 $a 2211 264 1 $a New York : $b Mariner Books, $c [2022] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In 1932, Japan was in crisis. Naval officers had assassinated the prime minister. The military had a stranglehold on the government. War with Russia loomed, and propaganda campaigns swept the country, urging schoolchildren to give money to procure planesand tanks. Into this maelstrom stepped Joseph C. Grew, America's most experienced and talented diplomat. When Grew was appointed to serve as ambassador to Japan, not only was the country in turmoil, but its relationship with America also was strained-andrapidly deteriorating. For the next decade, Grew attempted to warn American leaders about the risks of Japan's raging nationalism and rising militarism, while also trying to stabilize Tokyo's increasingly erratic and volatile foreign policy. From domestic terrorism by Japanese extremists, to the global rise of Hitler, to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the events that unfolded during Grew's tenure proved to be pivotal for Japan, and for the world. And his dispatches from the darkening heart of the Japanese empire would prove to be prescient-for his time, and for our own. Drawing on deep research to bring to life this bygone world and the abyss that swallowed it, Our Man in Tokyo is a revealing portrait of man who risked everything to avert another world war,and of a nation whose nationalistic forces proved unstoppable"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Grew, Joseph C. $q (Joseph Clark), $d 1880-1965. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Japan. 651 0 $a Japan $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1933-1945. 651 0 $a Japan $x Foreign relations $y 1912-1945. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Kemper, Steve. $t Our man in Tokyo $d New York : Mariner Books, [2022] $z 9780358066705 $w (DLC) 2022026046 941 $a 15 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013729.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043322.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012818.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104021403.0 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20231103013544.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031141.0 952 $l JMPC081 $d 20230331010732.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20230302012150.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011726.0 952 $l WWPC305 $d 20230202014236.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20230124010140.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230104010308.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20221228010409.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20221220011534.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20221202011744.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3DCACB8A447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search