Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential

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In a book based on original archival findings, a prize-winning historian and author of Taxing America offers a sweeping history of the interplay between United

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The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.