Skeptic, January 1st, 2000
HOCUS-POCUS HISTORY
WHAT IF FDR KNEW ABOUT PEARL HARBOR?
Review of Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, The Free Press, 2000, ISBN 0-684-85339-6, 374 pages, $26.00. WHEN A MAGICIAN pulls a rabbit out of a purportedly empty hat, we do not assume that the laws of nature have been momentarily suspended by the utterance of some nonsense words. Rather, we surmise that a trick has been played on us.
That should be our first thought in evaluating Robert Stinnett's new book on a very old idea: FDR knew about Pearl Harbor and let it happen in order to galvanize an...
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