Start at the mouth of the Wikipedia rabbit-hole -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal#Se...

- and beware! - Wikipedia has some seriously deep citations on this, if you don't have plenty of hours to kill.

_Battleship at War_ by Ivan Musicant is the full story of the USS Washington, does a good job at detailing that battle from the USS Washington perspective, and also discusses the early portions of the development of the Combat Information Center (one of the first implementations of the manual processes described at the beginning of article- greasepaint on plastic, reverse writing, etc.- came aboard USS Washington so that Admiral Lee could have improved situational awareness inside the tiny armored room with basically no windows that was the citadel).

Read it 30 years ago and still remember it vividly today.

shoot, I forget...but wasn't there a ton of material written re the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal? I vaguely remember the name Samuel Eliot Morrison. Also, as a kid, I remember a Natl Geo style writeup by Robert Ballard since he led an expedition to use ROVs to look at wrecks on Iron Bottom Sound.

I think Lee got a bit of luck too...since all of the rest of his fleet got blown up around him and the Washington was able to take advantage of the fact that all the attention were on the burning destroyers and the South Dakota, while he could take shots at will.

Beyond what was already posted there is a good starting overview video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI24zwFLcuU

I'd also be interested. Any books by professionals - historians, for example?