Books by Maury Klein

The author is Maury Klein and the subtitle is Mobilizing America for World War II , and it weighs in at almost 900 pp.  So far it is quite good, and well-written, though fairly slow in getting off the ground.  Here is one bit:

4. The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America , by Maury Klein.  This is a big, clunky book with lots of poor exposition.  It also covers a vital era — the real Industrial Revolution — which has remained oddly neglected by too many economic historians.