Why Stay At Pearl?: Senior Naval Officers, Attaches, Intelligence And State Department Influences On Placing The Fleet At Pearl Harbor In 1940

Why Stay At Pearl" is another book looking at pre-Pearl Harbor events that led up to the Presidential order to station the U.S. Navy Fleet at Honolulu. The center of the story is Admiral James O. Richardson, but the book looks at the influences around President Franklin D. Roosevelt that led him to give the instructions in the middle of 1940 for the Fleet to stay and not return to its California base. The story studies the men in the administration, the State Department, and the Navy who were on board or not with the President, and even gives a summary of what the Japanese language students thought and did during the time leading up to December 7, 1941.