American Manufacturing

BROKEN SUPPLY CHAINS: How Financial Engineering Hollowed American Manufacturing and the Complex Journey to Resilience is a powerful exposé on the hidden mechanisms that have quietly dismantled America’s industrial backbone. Far from a simple story of jobs lost to cheaper labor overseas, this book reveals a more insidious force: the rise of financial engineering and value extraction strategies that have gutted once-thriving manufacturing enterprises in pursuit of short-term returns. Through gripping “Ghost Factory” narratives and rigorously examined case studies, readers are taken ...

In the heart of America, countless small towns are anchored by factories that have stood for generations. These bastions of industry have weathered economic storms, technological revolutions, and shifting cultural tides. Yet, in recent decades, many have found themselves at a crossroads, facing the urgent need for transformation or the risk of obsolescence. Maple and Brick is a compelling and heartwarming novel that captures this pivotal moment through the eyes of Bob Harrington, the CEO of a struggling manufacturing company in Peterborough, New Hampshire. As the weight of his family's ...

In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong, innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. Smil assesses various suggestions for solving America's manufacturing crisis, including lowering corporate tax rates, promoting research and development, and improving public education. Will America act to reinvigorate manufacturing?

A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. From the...

Family-owned manufacturing companies are the heart of America’s economy, yet many falter when it comes to passing the torch. With drama often taking center stage, as seen in series like Succession, the importance of a well-planned generational transition cannot be overstated.

Politicians, voters, executives, and employees all want the answer to one question: How can America compete with cheap foreign labor, and restore skilled, well-paying jobs to our economy? American Drive answers that question.

Take a tour with the author inside more than 30 world-class facilities to experience the most remarkable innovations and highly sophisticated robotics and automation in action. Capture a front-row seat to top-brand, big-budget manufacturing in action with complex machines communicating with other machines. However, you can also learn from small-to-medium size manufacturers. Discover how some simple, tried-and-true, old-school, low-budget manufacturing processes can be game changers for industry.

A former CIA analyst draws on his experience combatting jihadi terror movements and the history of totalitarian regimes to show how citizens lose touch with reality. Some of history’s greatest empires have devolved into genocidal lunacy—often with shocking compliance from their own people...

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also...

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller about how Mitch McConnell has been bad for Kentucky—and why he needs to be voted out of office from the founder of Kentucky Sports Radio and attorney Matt Jones. They say all politics is local. In 2020, Mitch McConnell will have served five...

We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods—from beds to batteries to printer paper—are available in a finite number of "standard sizes." What makes these sizes "standard" is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms—often hotly competing firms—reach such collective agreements?

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future...

The shocking truth behind America's most controversial smartphone. When a $499 gold Android phone promised to "Make America Great Again," it ignited a firestorm that exposed the dark underbelly of political consumerism. The MAGA Phone: Made in China, Sold as American reveals the explosive supply chain scandal that turned patriotic marketing into a billion-dollar deception. This investigative expos uncovers how a single product became the ultimate symbol of manufactured nationalism, while secretly enriching foreign manufacturers at the expense of American consumers. Author Peter Hall takes ...

A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Following a boyhood in 19th-century Pittsburgh, during which he learned from his Scotch-Irish immigrant father the lessons of self-sufficiency and wealth accumulation, Andrew Mellon overcame painful shyness to become one of America's greatest financiers.

Set in the American Century from 1814 to 2003, An American Family Sampler is a chronicle of five generations who built and ultimately destroyed a great company. From its mercantile roots through country banking then morphing into a manufacturing and shipping giant and eventually becoming a financial powerhouse, the company, Prescotts, waxed and waned with America. Although based on a real life events, a story about a company is boring. What will keep reader interest are the stories of the family, its members, workers, spouses, friends and enemies. The thread binding these diverse characters...