So this book, The Roosevelt Myth, was written by a man named John T. Flynn. Flynn was a weird dude. He was a big-time anti-interventionist, going so far as to being a major figure in the early creation of the America First Committee, which was organized primarily to keep the U.S. out of World War II. That group had some serious problems with anti-Semites and Nazi sympathizers in its ranks, but I don't have any reason to think that Flynn was one such person. He seemed to be primarily motivated by opposition to U.S. intervention in all foreign wars. However, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, However, Flynn entirely abandoned his beliefs and fully supported the war effort. Don't blow up my fucking place, man! And it's somewhat ironic, too, because his later career largely revolved around disseminating half-cooked conspiracy theories about Pearl Harbor. And, like, Roosevelt knew it was going to happen.