What are the best book-length reads on WW1 and WW2 war economy management?
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Freedom's Forge by A. Herman is about the organization of war production by American business in WW2 led by two great figures of the time: Henry Kaiser (founded Kaiser Permanente for his miners, kind of the Elon Musk of his day) and Bill Knudsen (assembly line master at GM)
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Lucius D. Clay: An American Life by Jean Edward Smith
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Destructive Creation by Mark Wilson - discusses the successes of America’s centralized economic planning during wartime








