The arsenal of democracy : FDR, Detroit, and an epic quest to arm an America at war / A. J. Baime.
Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2014.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Arsenal of democracy : Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ford Motor Company, and their epic quest to arm an America at war.
FDR, Ford Motor Company, and their epic quest to arm an America at war.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ford Motor Company, and their epic quest to arm an America at war. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The Motor City. Henry ; The machine is the new messiah ; Edsel ; Learning to fly ; Father vs. son ; The Ford terror ; Danger in Nazi Germany -- The Liberator. Fifty thousand airplanes ; "Gentlemen, we must outbuild Hitler" ; The liberator ; Willow Run ; Awakening ; Strike! ; Air raid! -- The big one. The grim race ; "Detroit's worries are right now" ; Will it run? ; Bomber ship 01 ; Roosevelt visits Willow Run ; A dying man -- The rise of American airpower. Unconditional surrender ; Taking flight ; "The Arsenal of Democracy is making good" ; Death in Dearborn -- D-Day and the battle of Dearborn. Operation Tidal Wave ; The Detroit race riot of 1943 ; "The United States is the country of machines" ; Ford war production exceeds dreams ; D-Day ; The final battle. | |
| 520 | |a Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Economic aspects |z United States. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113679 | |
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