Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor

by Robert B. Stinnett

Book Overview

In Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster. Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684853396
• ISBN13: 9780684853390
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A Valuable, Courageous Research with stunning honesty.

As a teenager, I was shocked by the sudden, surprise of World War II. For me and many others, the many Whys? and unanswered questions, about the war with Japan, waited for a half century until this author carefully dug out precise evidence that discloses how, why, and when Americans were pushed into that war. The econommic and political maneuvers that President FDR planned and executed, to force Japan into war, left me with a distrust for the agendas and policies of American political leaders hereafter. We need to demand the truth instead of accepting what we are told by political leaders. The book is thoroughly documented and explained. Its story is told in words that anyone can understand, but the reader needs to read it to the end to digest its story. Mr. Stinnett's book will remain as a landmark breakthrough, regarding World War II and the Pearl Harbor disaster. The courage of the author and those he interviewed are a light in the tunnel. It brings to mind other deceptions, approved by U.S. presidents of recent times, such as American assassination plots on foreign leaders - Lumumba, Allende, Diem, Castro, etc. and two recent wars - Vietnam started by the LBJ's fake claim of a Tonkin Gulf attack - and Bush's Gulf War on Iraq, when U.S. diplomat, April Glaspie assured Saddam Hussein that the American Gov't had no concern if Iraq reclaimed its Kuwait province, and then threw war on Iraq when Hussein reclaimed Kuwait. How many hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children have been killed by our presidents' orders? Why is it a surprise that FDR engineered our entry to WWII? What will our new president in this century try to do? This book warns us to watch out, find the truth, and be not fooled by words.

WE'VE BEEN DUPED!

I've read the reviews of others, and I have to admit that I'm puzzled by some of them. But, if it weren't for differences of opinion, we wouldn't have horse races, would we? I think this book is dynamite!It occurs to me that a possible dividing line of opinion might depend upon who was around, and who wasn't around back on December 7, 1941. Those of us who WERE around, are the people who were really duped by FDR. Those who were NOT around, might tend to take a somewhat nonchalant view of the information revealed in this book.The information that's revealed is startling, pure and simple. And, the fact that much more information about the Pearl Harbor attack is STILL kept under lock and key by the US Government, is cause for alarm. It's 60 years since these events unfolded. Why is germaine material still being withheld from public scrutiny?Robert B. Stinnett is to be commended for his excellent detective work and perserverance in discovering and disclosing the contents of this book. (I've ordered three copies, so far.)It should be REQUIRED reading in all US classrooms!Carl B. Jordan - former Air Force fighter pilot.

A Real Life Chess Game

The game of chess is a metaphor for real life government. In truth, politics is about control and manipulation. We don't like to accept that because we want to view ourselves as individuals who want to control our own destiny. Life and death is the ultimate destiny and war is a fact in the the world. Mr. Stinnett has shown incredible fortitude and perserverance in his research for this book. This book will be considered one of the premier books about WWII in the twentieth century. Those who reject it will be doing so from an uninformed or political viewpoint. Having done research in a related area, Mr. Stinnett has answered some of my research questions. I feel Mr. Stinnett's work will become a recognized reference source. The contents will be a source of never ending controversy that could only be served by an open forum. What justification can there be for continued censorship ? To quote David W. Gaddy, chief historian of the NSA ( National Security Agency ) about NOT releasing information on American cryptographic success with Japanese codes, "It's in the public interest." On censorship : "The subject cannot be debated publicly; the government cannot disclose the basis for its position if the basis is itself part of the secret it must protect as part of its obligation to secure the public interest." Quoted from the book "Day of Deceit".

Hero or Traitor?

I am not suprised by the negative treatment that this book has received. If the author had treated any other topic, or any other President, the comments would be different. This historian has attacked one very, very, sacred cow. Some say that this book will only persuade those who are not familiar with the subject. This is untrue. It was endorsed by John Toland, the author of the Infamy, an impressive tome on this very subject. "Step by step, Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never before been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from the public until Stinnett's Freedom of Information Act requests finally persuaded the Navy to release the evidence."I personally doubt that FDR imagined that the losses would be so severe. Battleships were presumed to be tough, harbors protected, and Pearl did have radar. A battle yes, a massacre,no. To think otherwise contemplates an unimaginable crime. Some justify FDR on the grounds of the horrors of the enemy. However, this presumes that what did take place - and the Holocaust took place long after Dec. 7, 1941 - was predestined, and in no way influenced by the US entry into the war (and in no way possibly prevented by our neutrality). Remember, the demand for Unconditional Surrender and the Morgenthau Plan also came out of FDR's administration. There are some who still possess a Little Red Riding Hood view of America's role in the Second World War. This book helps end such childishness.

Incompetence and Deceit in Washington

Well written, well documented book. Almost too much detail. Book presents a very strong case for the view that FDR had prior knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At the very least it further documents the unfair and unjust treatment of Kimmel and Short in order to cover up civilian and military incompetence in Washington