中图分类法:	E712.53 版次：
著者:	Irwin, Manley Rutherford,
题名:	Silent strategists : [ Harding, Denby, and the U.S. Navy's Trans-Pacific offensive, World War II /] / ,
版次:	Revised Edition.
出版发行:	出版地： Lanham, Maryland : 出版社： University Press of America, 出版日期： c2013.
载体形态:	viii, 227 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
内容提要:	Few historians have looked beyond the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby. Both sponsored policies that nourished the nation's industrial infrastructure. Their legacy would yield a dividend of growth, production, employment, and ultimately, national security. In this revised edition, Professor Manley R. Irwin brings forth an innovative approach to researching these policies, papers, and archives, adding additional research from new documents which expand, enhance, and complement the first edition. The book argues that Harding and Denby exercised unusual foresight in preparing the navy for a war against Japan. Both individuals promulgated structural changes in the department and adopted a set of management tools that would redound to the navy in its prosecution of its Pacific offensive in World War II. Irwin's thorough investigation and addition of new