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Emily Rosenberg's "A Date Which Will Live" actually is a historiographical look at the conspiracy and why it sells books, which is the real reason why you see the books on the conspiracy at all. I haven't read it yet myself, but it is on my amazon gift list so maybe this Christmas.

So there are books out there which look at this, they just don't get much press because there is not an interest why these conspiracies exist, just the conspiracy itself.

If I, for example, was to do a scholarly book and the Pearl Harbor attack, it probably wouldn't sell very well since it would not sensationalize the event. It would just show the fact that there were screw-ups all the way up the chain of command along with some serious flaws in the system for sharing information in general.

There are two seminar papers I will be writing this spring which both may be a chapter in just such a book, but would probably be better served as publications in military history, or political science journals.

CougarGA: "Emily Rosenberg's "A Date Which Will Live" actually is a historiographical look at the conspiracy and why it sells books, which is the real reason why you see the books on the conspiracy at all. I haven't read it yet myself, but it is on my amazon gift list so maybe this Christmas."

Thanks to the miracle of Kindle technology, plus my brand new high-speed wireless DSL Internet connection, it took me all of about a minute to find and download Rosenberg's book.
And the cost was less than the fuel it would take to drive to my closest book store.

So I'm ready to dig into it, will let you know what I find and think.
Thanks for the recommendation!

Emily S. Rosenberg: A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (American Encounters/Global Interactions)