| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940–1945. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xiv, 657 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-7006-1308-0.)

Arsenal of World War II is the fourth installment of Paul A. C. Koistinen's projected five-volume series on the "political economy of American warfare." As in previous volumes, he is interested in how mobilization has been shaped by such factors as economic maturity, military characteristics, and governmental capacities. But unlike previous volumes, this book focuses on a period of only five years and seeks not only to continue his general analysis but also to provide the first comprehensive history of World War II mobilization since the 1940s. As its grand theme, Arsenal of World War II aims to show that the period was historically pivotal in that it left us with a power structure that has shaped the politics and public policy of the United States ever since.

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