I'm reading a new book called
"Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II."Highly recommended. It's a view of WW II history that hasn't (to my knowledge) been covered before. The mobilization of the US free industrial might to win the war was a staggeringly tough challenge. Almost as tough was fighting communist controlled CIO labor unions which wanted the US to lose and FDR's New Dealers who wanted to centralize all control under government.
The sections about Henry Kaiser and his sons together with Steve Bechtel and his family and the building of the Calship shipyards in Richmond and the Marinship shipyards just above Sausalito are tremendous.
Unless he addresses the infrastructure built during the 30s it is only half a story. Without the Grand Coulee Dam, there would have been no Alcoa and no Boeing. Without the dams of the Sierra and the Colorado, there would have been no industry in California.
None of it could be done today because of the legal power of the environmental left. Unless and until the Senate repudiates every UN environmental treaty, our industrial infrastructure will remain in chains. Yet it was the same Roosevelt who built that infrastructure that instituted the UN and its greenie treaty racket. Why?
IMO, the USA had done what it was financed to do, which was to build the industrial base to consolidate global military power for use by the UN. Since then, every war we have entered has been designed to sap our economy to no geopolitical effect, other than to build the infrastructure of a global police state. Reagan was the exception; the rule has been the same.