Arthur Herman, visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World, which has sold more than half a million copies worldwide. His most recent work, Gandhi & Churchill, was the 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
“A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits
of the marketplace.”—The Wall Street Journal
“A rarely told industrial saga, rich with particulars of the
growing pains and eventual triumphs of American industry . . .
Arthur Herman has set out to right an injustice: the loss, down
history’s memory hole, of the epic achievements of American
business in helping the United States and its allies win World War
II.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Magnificent . . . It’s not often that a historian comes up with a
fresh approach to an absolutely critical element of the Allied
victory in World War II, but Pulitzer finalist Herman . . . has
done just that.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A compulsively readable tribute to ‘the miracle of mass
production.’ ”—Publishers Weekly
“The production statistics cited by Mr. Herman . . . astound.”—The
Economist
“[A] fantastic book.”—Forbes
“Freedom’s Forge is the story of how the ingenuity and energy of
the American private sector was turned loose to equip the finest
military force on the face of the earth. In an era of gathering
threats and shrinking defense budgets, it is a timely lesson told
by one of the great historians of our time.”—Donald Rumsfeld
“World War II could not have been won without the vital support and
innovation of American industry. Arthur Herman’s engrossing and
superbly researched account of how this came about, and the two men
primarily responsible for orchestrating it, is one of the last
great, untold stories of the war.”—Carlo D’Este, author of Patton:
A Genius for War
“It takes a writer of Arthur Herman’s caliber to make a story
essentially based on industrial production exciting, but this book
is a truly thrilling story of the contribution made by American
business to the destruction of Fascism. With America producing
two-thirds of the Allies’ weapons in World War II, the contribution
of those who played a vital part in winning the war, yet who never
once donned a uniform, has been downplayed or ignored for long
enough. Here is their story, with new heroes to admire—such as
William Knudsen and Henry Kaiser—who personified the can-do spirit
of those stirring times.”—Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of
War
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