The best volumes on Pearl Harbor are the two that Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon fashioned out of Gordon W. Prange's work following his death—At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. Especially valuable for understanding the political context in which the Pearl Harbor debate took root is Martin V. Melosi's The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Political Controversy Over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946. The eight congressional hearings of the 1940s are compiled in Investigations of the Attack on Pearl Harbor: Index to Government Hearings, edited by Stanley H. Smith. Useful discussions of the literature by two eminent historians are the reviews of At Dawn in the New York Times, by Gaddis Smith, Nov. 29, 1981, and of Verdict in the Washington Post, by Akira Iriye, Jan.19, 1986. Telford Taylor demolishes John Toland in the New York Times Magazine of April 29, 1984.