{"product_id":"pearl-harbor-from-infamy-to-greatness-9781451660500","title":"Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A valuable reexamination\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America--Pearl Harbor--based on years of research and new information uncovered by a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men--and forced America's entry into World War II. \u003ci\u003ePearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness\u003c\/i\u003e follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS\u003ci\u003e Arizona\u003c\/i\u003e at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan's leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBacked by a research team's five years of work, as well as Nelson's thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work \"weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy's unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCraig Nelson is the author of \u003ci\u003ePearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, \u003ci\u003eRocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as several previous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Radiance \u003c\/i\u003e(a PEN Award Finalist chosen as one of the year's best books by NBC News, the American Institute of Physics, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, and FlavorWire), \u003ci\u003eThe First Heroes, Thomas Paine \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the Henry Adams Prize), and \u003ci\u003eLet's Get Lost\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for W.H. Smith's Book of the Year). His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, National Geographic, The New England Review, Popular Science, Reader's Digest, \u003c\/i\u003e and a host of other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524485452050,"sku":"9781451660500","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff719c7a-59bb-4e82-9aea-98ea00efee24.jpg?v=1731180775","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pearl-harbor-from-infamy-to-greatness-9781451660500","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}