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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.