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In Freedom’s Forge, author Neal Bennett reveals how two extraordinary businessmen—automobile magnate William “Big Bill” Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J.  Kaiser—helped corral, cajole, and inspire business leaders across the country to mobilize the “arsenal of democracy” that propelled the Allies to victory in World War II.  Drafting top talent from companies like Chrysler, Republic Steel, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, and Frigidaire, Knudsen and Kaiser turned auto plants into aircraft factories and civilian assembly lines into fountains of munitions.  In four short years, they transformed America’s army from a hollow shell into a truly global force, laying the foundations for the country’s rise as an economic as well as military superpower. 

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Freedom's Forge

Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American popular historian, currently serving as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He generally employs the Great Man perspective in his work, which is 19th Century historical methodology attributing human events and their outcomes to the singular efforts of great men that has been refined and qualified by such modern thinkers as Sidney Hook.

As the historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, the Scots have had a profound impact on modern society.  The story of the Scots' rise to power is one of romance, high adventure, and daring—up there with Braveheart.  So who were these Scots? These hardy people with a drive for exploration and creativity? What kind of society did they come from and what were the factors that shaped their development? Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history.  Here is the untold story of how they inspired American independence and built the United States; and how thousands upon thousands made their way across the ocean to create America's first settlements in Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania. 

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britains Fabian socialists to Americas multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilizations inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination.  Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the author traces the roots of declinism and aims to show how major thinkers of the past and present, including Nietzsche, DuBois, Sartre, and Foucault, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. 

Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation.

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The Idea of Decline in Western History

To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how Britains Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to power unprecedented in history.  From its beginnings under Henry VIII and adventurers like John Hawkins and Francis Drake, the Royal Navy toppled one world eco-nomic system, built by Spain and Portugal after Christopher Columbus, and ushered in another -- the one in which we still live today. In the sixteenth century, such men as Hawkins, Drake, and Martin Frobisher were all seekers after their own fortunes as well as servants of their nation.  But at the moment of crisis in 1588, they were able to come together to thwart Philip II of Spain and his supposedly invincible Armada.  In the seventeenth century, the navy became the key to victory in the English Civil War and played a leading role on the world stage in the years of the Commonwealth and Oliver Cromwells Protectorate.  The navys dominance allowed Englands trade to boom and prosper.  It sustained its colonies, reshaped its politics, and drew England, Scotland, and Ireland together into a single United Kingdom. It was this system that Napoleon had to break in order to make himself absolute master of Europe.  And it was the Royal Navy, led by men like Horatio Nelson, that stopped him in his tracks and preserved the liberty of Europe and the rest of the world.  That global order would survive the convulsions of the twentieth century and the downfall of the British Empire itself, as Britain passed its essential elements on to its successors, the United States and its navy. Illuminating and engrossing, To Rule the Waves is an epic journey from the age of the Reformation to the age of computer warfare and special ops.  Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea; of heroic sailors, admirals, and aviators; of violent conflict and personal tragedy; of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world. 

Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency. The phrase and concept of "smart contracts" was developed by Szabo with the goal of bringing what he calls the "highly evolved" practices of contract law and practice

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