Cover-Up: The Politics of Pearl Harbor, 1941-1946 [Hardcover]

Bruce R. Bartlett (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 189 pages
• Publisher: Arlington House; 1st edition (February 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870004239
• ISBN-13: 978-0870004230
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,488,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bruce Bartlett is a columnist for The Fiscal Times, an online newspaper covering public and personal finance, and Tax Notes, a weekly magazine for tax practitioners and policymakers. He also contributes a weekly post to the Economix blog at the New York Times, and writes regularly for the Financial Times. Bartlett was previously a columnist for Forbes magazine and Creators Syndicate. His writing often focuses on the intersection between politics and economics and attempts to inform politicians about economics, and economists about the current nature of politics.

Bartlett's work is informed by many years in government, including service on the staffs of Congressmen Ron Paul and Jack Kemp and Senator Roger Jepsen, as executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, senior policy analyst in the Reagan White House, and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department during the George H.W. Bush administration.

Bruce is the author of eight books including the New York Times best-seller, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (Doubleday, 2006). His last book was The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). His new book, The Benefit and the Burden, will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2012 and is a history and review of issues related to tax reform.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Did FDR entice the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor?, December 27, 2003

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This review is from: Cover-Up: The Politics of Pearl Harbor, 1941-1946 (Hardcover)

This book reviews the publications of those who believe Pres. FDR and his advisors tried to keep secret Japanese military messages from the defenders of Pearl Harbor, in the president's attempt to entice the Japanese to bomb Pearl, in order to get the U.S. entered into WWII in order to assist the British in their war against Hitler. Whew, that's a lot to bite off in this short 189-page book written in 1978. Many conservatives (America First movement) understood that FDR wanted the U.S. to assist England, but they believed he was being duplicitous about how he wanted to get U.S. military forces involved in supporting England. It's an okay read for briefly reviewing the highlights of the various congressional inquiries into the Pearl Harbor attack, and explains why some believe that Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short were wrongly blaimed for allowing the disaster to occur. No new revelations are made of missing secret documents that might indict FDR. But it is of a beginner's interest in trying to understand the mindset as to how and why some believe that FDR was misleading the public into war against Germany, by enticing the Japanese to bomb the ill-informed U.S. fleet based in Hawaii. To his credit, Mr. Bartlett wrote that he does not believe that FDR purposefully "set up" the Japanese to attack Pearl, but questions why certain Japanese messages inquring about the defenses of Pearl Harbor were withheld from the Hawaiian commanders.