Goodreads asked Philip Padgett:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Philip Padgett When I was a teenager, I spent three summers canoeing in northern Ontario, Canada. The landmark for our put-in was a small monument that commemorated a fishing trip by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the same waters in 1943 not long before critical meetings with Churchill in Hyde Park, NY, and Quebec. Throughout my career in national security analysis, I would occasionally wonder, how was it that FDR could leave a wartime capital - secretly - at a critical time to go fishing 760 miles away? With retirement and in search of the answer, I started following the evidence. It led to a fascinating story.

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