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Harvey, Robert

American shogun : general MacArthur, emperor Hirohito and the drama of modern Japan / Robert Harvey. - Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, c2006. - 480 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents;

Part I: Worlds apart
1. The little adjutant
2. West point

Part II: Dawn of the rising sun
3. The Heian period
4. The Shogunate
5. Aristocratic revolution
6. The Meiji emperor
7. The plutocrats
8. Outward bound
9. "Affluent and humane"
10. Crown prince

Part III: American hero
11. The big country
12. Growing pains
13. The rainbow division
14. The amorous superintendent
15. Eroticism, grotesquery and nonsense
16. Devouring Manchuria
17. The military-industrial alliance
18. Blood on the snow
19. Into China
20. The eagle stirs

Part IV: The old man of Corregidor
21. Generalissimo of Washington
22. The two giants
23. Corregidor and Bataan
24. "I shall return"

Part V: Fightback
25. To the Philippines
26. Dance of death
27. Little boy and fat man
28. When the signing stopped
29. Surrender

Part VI: American Shogun
30. Conqueror
31. Proconsul
32. Visionary
33. The assault on privilege
34. The Tokyo trials

Part VI: Fall of the Shogun
35. Counter-attack
36. Humanizing the emperor
37. Korea
38. Old soldiers never die

Part VIII: The emperor's new clothes
39. Return of the Samurai





Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 9781585676828 1585676829

LCCN: 2005040192

Subjects--Personal Names:
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Army --Biography.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Generals--United States--Biography.
Emperors--Japan--Biography.
Culture conflict--Case studies.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Relations--Japan.
Japan--Relations--United States.
Japan--History--20th century.
United States--History--1901-1953.

Dewey Class. No.: 952.0440922 / HAR