Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- 1-REVISIONISM AND THE HISTORICAL BLACKOUT by HARRY ELMER BARNES -- I. HOW WAR HAS TRANSFORMED THE AMERICAN DREAM INTO A NIGHTMARE -- II. REVISIONISM AFTER TWO WORLD WARS -- III. HOW THE HISTORICAL BLACKOUT OPERATES -- IV. GLOBAL CRUSADING AND THE HISTORICAL BLACKOUT ARE UNDERMINING HISTORICAL INTEGRITY -- V. NOTE ON "NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR" CONCEPTIONS OF HISTORY -- 2-THE UNITED STATES AND THE ROAD TO WAR IN EUROPE by CHARLES CALLAN TANSILL -- I. THE PEACE TREATIES OF 1919 INSURE THE OUTBREAK OF ANOTHER WORLD WAR -- II. AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH GERMANY, 1919-1936 -- III. AN ITALIAN INTERLUDE: THE ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR -- IV. THE EVE OF CONFLICT -- 3-ROOSEVELT IS FRUSTRATED IN EUROPE by FREDERIC R. SANBORN -- I. INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS AND HYPOTHESES: THE ABANDONMENT OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY -- II. ROOSEVELT AND MUNICH -- III. THE AFTERMATH OF MUNICH -- IV. AMERICAN POLICY AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- V. AMERICAN AID TO BRITAIN "SHORT OF WAR" -- VI. THE "SHOOTING WAR" BEGINS -- 4-HOW AMERICAN POLICY TOWARD JAPAN CONTRIBUTED TO WAR IN THE PACIFIC by WILLIAM L. NEUMANN -- I. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS IN THE JAPANESE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES -- II. THE AMERICAN NAVAL THREAT TO JAPAN -- III. USE OF THE U.S. NAVY IN FAR EASTERN POLICY -- IV. ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON JAPAN -- V. AMERICA'S FALSE AND COSTLY ASSUMPTIONS -- 5-JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1921-1941 -- THE PACIFIC BACK ROAD TO WAR by CHARLES CALLAN TANSILL -- I. PRESIDENT WILSON CARRIES ON A POLICY OF PRESSURE UPON JAPAN -- II. RELATIONS WITH JAPAN UNDER THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS OF HARDING, COOLIDGE, AND HOOVER -- III. ROOSEVELT AND HULL ADOPT THE ANTI-JAPANESE POLICY OF STIMSON -- IV. INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS -- V. THE UNITED STATES MOVES TO WAR AGAINST JAPAN.

6-THE ACTUAL ROAD TO PEARL HARBOR by GEORGE MORGENSTERN -- I. ROOSEVELT ADOPTS THE STIMSON POLICY TOWARD JAPAN -- II. WASHINGTON PERSISTENTLY REJECTS THE JAPANESE OVERTURES FOR PEACE -- III. ON THE EVE OF PEARL HARBOR -- IV. GENERAL SHORT AND ADMIRAL KIMMEL ARE NOT WARNED CONCERNING THE IMPENDING JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR -- V. "WE WERE ATTACKED. THERE IS NO -- QUESTION ABOUT THAT." -- EPILOGUE: THE NEW YORK TIMES' WHITEWASH OF GENERAL MARSHALL -- 7-THE PEARL HARBOR INVESTIGATIONS by Percy L. Greaves, JR. -- I. INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS -- II. THE KNOX REPORT -- III. THE ROBERTS COMMISSION -- IV. THE HART INQUIRY -- V. CONGRESS TAKES A HAND -- VI. ARMY PEARL HARBOR BOARD (APHB) -- VII. THE NAVY COURT OF INQUIRY (NCI) -- VIII. THE CLARKE INQUIRIES -- IX. THE CLAUSEN INVESTIGATION -- X. THE HEWITT INQUIRY -- XI. THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION -- XII. THE ADMINISTRATION PAID OFF -- XIII. OFFICIAL ARMY HISTORY REVEALS PRE-WAR ANGLO-AMERICAN WAR PLANS -- POSTSCRIPT -- EDITOR'S POSTSCRIPT -- 8-THE BANKRUPTCY OF A POLICY by WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN -- I. LYING US INTO WAR -- II. THE WAR AIMS PROCLAIMED BY ROOSEVELT -- III. HOW FAR WERE ROOSEVELT'S AIMS REALIZED? -- IV. THE COSTS OF THE WAR -- V. THE STARK BANKRUPTCY OF ROOSEVELTIAN FOREIGN POLICY -- POSTSCRIPT-SOME NOTES FOR FUTURE HISTORIANS ON THE TRUMAN FOREIGN POLICIES -- SELECTED REFERENCES -- 9-AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE LIGHT OF NATIONAL INTEREST AT THE MID-CENTURY by GEORGE A. LUNDBERG -- I. THE MEANING OF NATIONAL INTEREST -- II. CONTINENTALISM VERSUS THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM -- III. SECURITY AND PROSPERITY -- IV. ECOLOGY AND FOREIGN POLICY -- V. PRESSURES INFLUENCING POLICY -- VI. DEEDS AND CONSEQUENCES -- VII. WHITEWASHING THE WRECKAGE -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- EXHIBIT I -- EXHIBIT II -- 10-SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS by HARRY ELMER BARNES -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.