Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
2012·432 pages
Chronicles how industrial leaders like Knudsen and Kaiser transformed U.S. manufacturing into the WWII arsenal of democracy.
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Chronicles how industrial leaders like Knudsen and Kaiser transformed U.S. manufacturing into the WWII arsenal of democracy.
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SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty. In Freedom’s Forge, bestselling author Arthur Herman takes us back to that time, revealing how two extraordinary American b...
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Examines U.S. government-business partnership and wartime mobilization
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