Lew Paper, a grad­u­ate of Har­vard Law School, is the author of six oth­er books, includ­ing In the Caul­dron: Ter­ror, Ten­sion, and the Amer­i­can Ambassador’s Strug­gle to Avoid Pearl Har­bor, and Per­fect: Don Larsen’s Mirac­u­lous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Hap­pen. His arti­cles and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, and oth­er periodicals.