A number of books and firsthand accounts, some already mentioned in the Author’s Note, helped enormously in the writing and preparation of The One Man:
FDR and the Jews, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman (Harvard University Press, 2013).
“Orthodox Ends, Unorthodox Means: The Role of the Vaad Hatzalah and Agudath Israel during the Holocaust,” David H. Kranzler. In The Goldberg Commission Report: American Jewry during the Holocaust, ed. Maxwell Seymour Finger (1984, 2011).
Saving the Jews: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Robert N. Rosen (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006).
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindberg, and America’s Fight over World War II, Lynne Olson (Random House, 2013).
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Vintage Books, 2006).
Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin (William Morrow and Company, 1991).
The Adventures of a Mathematician, S. M. Ulam (The University of California Press, 1991).
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster, 1986).
The Physics of the Manhattan Project, Bruce Cameron Reed (Springer-Verlag, 2015).
Eyewitness Auschwitz, Filip Müller (Ivan R. Dee, 1979).
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, Shlomo Venzia (Polity Press, 2009).
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz, Denis Avey with Rob Broomby (Da Capo Press, 2011).
True Tales from a Grotesque Land, Auschwitz, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk (University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
The Polish Officer, Alan Furst (Random House, 1995).