A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, by Maury Klein
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation’s history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts.
The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America’s greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.
A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, by Maury Klein- Amazon Sales Rank: #525145 in Books
- Brand: Klein, Maury
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.17" h x 2.39" w x 6.29" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 912 pages
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“Very well written and exhaustively researched, this masterpiece demonstrates that accomplished scholarly work can also be accessible. Highly recommended to both academics and lay readers.” ―Library Journal, starred review
“[Klein's] coverage of the organization of American institutional, economic, military, and governmental might for WWII is both sobering and inspiring . . . reminiscent of Arthur Schlesinger's earlier, sweeping volumes on the early New Deal--uncommonly perceptive, enjoyably readable, and authoritative.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Klein's book reads like a fairy tale . . . If you haven't given Boyle's law much thought since the Reagan revolution, reading Klein will reward you with an excellent course in heat, electricity, and magnetism, at very little cost to your composure.” ―Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
“Maury Klein's stories of heroic inventors creating the industrial revolution make the history of technology come alive.” ―Daniel Walker Howe, NBCC Award nominee for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
“This well-oiled colossus of a book-its moving parts working together like a mighty machine--illuminates an epic period of national growth, when the country's first big carbon footprints were made on a march toward greatness and plenty.” ―Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara, Bandbox, and Fellow Travelers
“For those who believe the 'grand narrative' has disappeared, I strongly recommend Maury Klein's elegant and endlessly fascinating account of America's mobilization for World War II. Combining a deft understanding of the enormous forces that won the war and changed the world's direction along with a jeweler's eye for the anecdotes that bring history alive, Klein has produced the best one-volume account to date. The shrewd analysis superb writing, and masterful storytelling sweep the reader along. History doesn't get much better than this.” ―David M. Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Polio: An American Story and A Conspiracy So Immense: The World According to Joe McCarthy
“'We must be the great arsenal of democracy,' declared Franklin Roosevelt in December 1940. In the five wartime years that followed, his countrymen stocked that arsenal with astounding quantities of the instruments of war--even while expanding the civilian sector of the economy as well. For all the valor of its warriors on land, sea, and air, in the last analysis it was the stupefying productivity of America's behemoth economy that constituted the nation's greatest contribution to victory. Maury Klein tells the story of the World War II 'production miracle' in all its complexity, contention, and drama. Meticulously researched, incisively argued, and fetchingly written, A Call to Arms is the authoritative account of one of America's most prodigious achievements.” ―David M. Kennedy
“Thoroughly researched, objective and authoritative in tone, this is likely to be the definitive work on this topic for years to come.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“[A] magisterial account. Exhaustively researched and engagingly written, this marvelous book tells an epic story. It paints on a broad canvas, yet simultaneously limns detailed and fascinating miniatures of compelling people and places. It deserves a spot on the bookshelf alongside David Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom From Fear as the definitive rendering of the World War II home front.” ―The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“This story of how America became the 'great arsenal of democracy' is the subject of A Call to Arms, and I can't imagine it being told more thoroughly, authoritatively or definitively.” ―The Washington Post, one of Jonathan Yardley's favorite books of 2013
“Klein is a writer, historian and, most enjoyably, a storyteller . . . The excellent, broader story [he] tells in A Call to Arms is about a country that fought with itself before it could fight its enemies abroad.” ―Dallas Morning News
About the Author Maury Klein is renowned as one of the finest historians of American business and economy. He is the author of many books, including The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America; and Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. He is professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island. He lives in Saunderstown, Rhode Island.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful. Slow read, but good overall By Amazon Customer No question, this book has problems. The old cruiser Olympia was scrapped. Nope, it's still in Philadelphia. The battleship Oregon was scrapped. The liberty ships used steam reciprocating engines, not diesel. After listing some 500 ships sunk by U-boats, he says it totaled 2,000 tons. Typo. 2 million more likely.Still, the story of how we mobilized for this war, warts and all, is a magnificent story of human endeavor of that particular flavor American. He questions that is was the greatest generation. It was more like the unluckiest generation. Some won't like that, but after reading his book, I think he's made a case that some were great, others, so so, and a whole lot just barely got by. A great story, nevertheless. Much more evenhanded than Freedom's Forge, and despite my list of howlers, it has fewer than Forge as well.If you're curious as to how we got the job done of mobilizing American for World War II, you'll read this book.
30 of 37 people found the following review helpful. Loses Forest For Trees By John Weinshel This is a poorly written book, on a terrifically interesting and relevant topic, that is at least twice as long as it need be. Mr. Klein quickly loses his way amongst an endless compendium of short lived agencies and the men (they were all men) who ran or didn't or should have or should not have run them. He has clearly done his homework, and appears intent on making us read all of it.I am proud that I made it a full third of the way through, before realizing I had completely forgotten what was going on at the beginning, and could not possibly summarize what I had read so far.Some of the same material is touched on quite elegantly in Lynne Olson's Those Angry Days, but I am still waiting to learn the story of how we bungled the runup to the war before finally awaking the sleeping giant.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Monumental; iconic; epochal By William Brennan I considered myself an advanced amateur student of World War II. What a joke; until I read this book I knew nothing about how the war was won. Sure, I knew of Rosie the riveter and her counterpart, Ralph. I even had my own victory garden but had no idea how it fit into the overall food production of the war.Did you know that developing the B-29 cost more than the Manhattan Project? Neither did I, but that’s a fact that I won’t soon forget now.The usual characters are largely missing from Maury Klein’s great book. They were off fighting the war while another cast provided them with the guns, ammunition, planes, radar, dehydrated potatoes, onions, tires, jigs, machine tools and a million and one other products and services that made it possible for the Eisenhowers, Pattons, Bradleys, Nimitzes, Halseys, Arnolds, MacArthurs and all the other generals and privates and seamen to Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, so we could all stay free.I hesitate to name many heroes of the home front for fear of leaving some off the list. I knew many of the names and was happy to see them get their due and take their bow as Klein showcased them. But one name was not familiar to me, and I want to point out Donald Nelson as one who gave much and was rewarded with almost nothing when all was said and done.Most of the real heroes were supremely confident men – and women – who would not let bureaucracy stand in the way of their ideas on what must be done to increase production of the goods, commodities and services essential to defeating the Axis powers.Klein also paints vignettes of how little people did their very best to support the war effort. These human interest stories bring out the best of the Greatest Generation, but he does not shrink from showing their human side in wanting their share and in exploiting black markets to satisfy their own hunger and perceived needs.Klein’s description of the parallel development of the B-29 Super Fortress and the atomic bombs is riveting, and he comes down forcefully on the side of those who believe that using the bomb in combat saved tens of thousands of American lives.Above all, he gives Franklin Roosevelt credit for being the visionary leader needed to get the home front moving when isolationists fought him every step of the way to thwart these policies. Klein is unstinting in his praise for FDR for being the absolutely essential communicator to bring the concept of total war to the American people.My negatives are minuscule in comparison with the positives: the book is long and heavy and should have been issued in two volumes; the writing is well above pedestrian but does not shine as brightly as Klein’s scholarship; and finally there are more than a few instances of failed copy editing.If you really want to know how America won the war, this book is essential for your education and must be held handy for ready reference; what a book.
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