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Freedom's Forge
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II | Arthur Herman
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The Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of Gandhi & Churchill assesses the pivotal role of American big business in building weapons and enabling industrial dominance for Allied forces in World War II, tracing the contributions of Danish immigrant William Knudsen and shipbuilding industrialist Henry Kaiser.
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DanielFrohlich
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Loved it. Learned a ton! Didn‘t realize how late the US was to WWII, and was awesome to hear about how it geared up production for the war (the “arsenal of democracy”).