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New York Times best-selling publisher and Pulitzer Award finalist Arthur Herman pens this attractive look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a armed service powerhouse during World Warfare II. In 1940, FDR asked Standard Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. On the other hand, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of "Liberty ships" - vessels that arrived to symbolize America's great wartime output.