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Robert Thompson

About the Author

Robert Smith Thompson teaches at the University of South Carolina. His book A Time for War: FDR and the Path to Pearl Harbor was the first serious work to argue that FDR provoked the attack on Pearl Harbor as a way of justifying America’s entry into war. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina.

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