Freedom's Forge, What a read!

When I started to read this book, all the lights went on in my head! Here were the answers that I did not have as a child the answers to what moved the "sleeping giant," to supply the Allies and itself with the tools of war.
Here were the memories, of newspapers with, John E. Lewis, Bernard Baruch, Knudson, Kaiser and other names that flew around not only in newsprint but in radio and conversations at our little kitchen table,led by Dad as he discussed the news with Mom in front of us children, my brother Frank and me.

The high of business struck me right from the start,there is nothing like it in the world! Excitement followed me as I read through the years of industry before the war came to us. After the fall of France,the words of Churchill to Roosevelt haunt me, that the British Navy was the largest navy in the world, and what would the commanders say, when Hitler took charge? An eye opener if there ever was one. The picture of the time kept resonating as a preview of where we are in the world today, uncertainty, name calling of our business leaders who are still referred to as "greedy" the same sentences reverbrate, as though coming back at us through the mists of time. "They are making too much money, we have to tax it."

Yes, I loved every moment of this exciting book about business and what free enterprise can do when called on! I recommend the book to everyone I know who loves business, and give a short synopsis to everyone who will listen.

The leaders in power were not trusting of the men they had called on to put the United States into production and came close to shutting it down, couple that with strikes by the labor unions and we were on precarious ground. In spite of that our leaders Knudson, Kaiser and the many other business men who were involved in production to meet the escalating needs of our Allies and our own military, kept solving each problem as it was laid out in front of production. Race, gender,union leaders, untrusting lawmakers, product failure, and more dot the pages of a book that carries us forward thru each deadline and improves upon the last delivery with more efficient production and better products as the story of our nation progresses.It should be taught in our schools, from this point of view because this is the story of we the people, not the story of our government. Now, I know why I was always proud to be an American, but then I always knew it!