Lord shows the way Americans believed that no one had the ability to reach them, let alone attack the U.S.This is obvious in Chapter VII's title: "I Didn't Even Know They Were Sore At Us!", p 64.
How untrained they are at putting the clues together, and just how unprepared they can be, until after the fact- when they become fiercely patriotic and regroup.He does not spend a lot of time pointing fingers or placing blame, but remains on the raw human experiences of the day.As author James Michner wrote in The New York Times, " It stuns the reader with the weight of reality." Walter Lord reminds the reader of just how innocent people are in the moments before history is changed forever. Roosevelts' speech before Congress the following day.Lord is also known for his bestselling book A Night to Remember, which was written in the same style as this book, with minute-to-minute accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. Walter Lords' Day of Infamy traces the drama of the massive aerial attack of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941.In this book, Lord painstakingly reconstructed not just the "why" and the "way" of the attack, but also how it happened, how people could have been so unaware of what might happen, and the slowness to regroup when it did.He begins with the innocence (and evils) of the night before the tragedy.He ends with the famous national radio address of President Franklin D. (New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 2nd Edition, 1985), 227 pp. * All Partners were chosen among 50+ writing services by our Customer Satisfaction Team
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