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Eisenhower was so interested in mechanical warfare he and George Patton stripped tanks down to their constituent parts and reassembled them.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
One layer of armor was bolted on to allay the fears of the states with fewer people, that the more populous states would combine to gain a commercial advantage or to control presidential appointments and national policies; the small states were determined that all states should have an equal voice in the Congress, so, in what became known as the “G
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
A curb on the practice was enacted in 1917, after President Wilson had added a phrase to the American political lexicon by denouncing “a little group of willful men” (actually eleven senators, including La Follette and his fellow liberal George Norris) who had talked to death Wilson’s proposal to arm American merchantmen against German submarine at
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
it. Unfazed, Wilson used his power as chief executive to segregate the federal government.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
As an adult, Wilson shared none of Roosevelt’s lust for violent conquest. For his secretary of state he chose William Jennings…
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Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
THE ENGINEERING QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The collection of manufacturing technologies developed by Hall, Blanchard, and, later, men like Thomas Warner and Cyrus Buckland at the Springfield Armory has been dubbed “Armory practice” by the historian David Hounshell, and was a key element in the American technologic gene pool. Merritt Roe Smith has traced the numerous skilled machinists who p
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