[ProtectOurFreedom]

I HIGHLY recommend Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman, 2012.

[daniel1212]

I HIGHLY recommend Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman, 2012.

I thought the government did all that.

[Oatka]

I HIGHLY recommend Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman, 2012.

A great, informative book, with more startling production numbers (everything was already set up by Knudsen before the War) as well as seemingly almost overnight construction (by today's standards) of shipyards, aluminum and steel plants, etc.

What surprised me was that in 1943 there were more civilian deaths due to production accidents than there were military casualties in the South Pacific. Hard to believe.

There's also a good chapter on the unions, Communist-led and otherwise, screwing things up.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I HIGHLY recommend Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman, 2012.

GMTA

[rlmorel]

Listening to that book again for the third time...it is astonishingly good.

[Sequoyah101]

Beat me to it. Very good book. It was one of my rare one sitting reads.

It was not the patriotic spirit of the American worker alone that got so much done. It was mostly Bill Knudsen and his genius, vision and connections. The socialists in the Roosevelt admin knifed him.