Fred W. Frailey

It is interesting how one's view of a given book can change in four years. This time this book really saddens me. It is breathtaking to read how a major American industry plummeted in barely a decade from a position of desperate need (the war years) to one of near abhorrence. There is room for a lot of shoulda, coulda, woulda on the part of the industry's leaders. But these leaders went from being people everyone wanted to see to folks no one wanted to see. The leaders were just not capable of seeing a vastly changed nation with the people not in the least thankful for what the industry had done just years earlier. Sadly, the leaders panicked which led to a disintegration of a worn out plant. There hasn't been anything else quite like it; we can hope there will never be a repeat.… (mehr)