In <b>The Yamato Dynasty</b>, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <b>The Soong Dynasty</b>, and his wife and longtime collaborator, Peggy, present the controversial, never-before-told history of the world&#8217;s longest-reigning dynasty&#8211;the Japanese imperial family&#8211;from its nineteenth-century origins through today. In the first collective biography of both the men and women of the Yamato Dynasty, the Seagraves take a controversial, comprehensive look at a family history that crosses two world wars, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American occupation of Japan, and Japan&#8217;s subsequent phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the Second World War. <b>The Yamato Dynasty</b><i> </i>tells the story of the powerful men who have stood behind the screen&#8211;the shoguns and financiers controlling the throne from the shadows&#8211;taking readers behind the walls of privilege and tradition and revealing, in uncompromising detail, the true nature of a dynasty shrouded in myth and legend