| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years. By Keith D. McFarland and David L. Roll. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xii, 452 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-34626-6.)

How did the United States mobilize for war in 1941 without destroying some of the bedrock principles that underpinned its liberal democratic structures? How did it mobilize for the long Cold War without destroying its economy or its liberal democratic polity? A central figure in the actual planning, logistics, and administrative organization for industrial mobilization for both World War II and the early Cold War was Louis Johnson. Keith D. McFarland and David L. Roll have written a comprehensive biography of Johnson and his role in the creation of an architecture for long-term industrial mobilization for war. Johnson was not only an interesting actor at a pivotal moment in American history, 1936–1955, but his legacy has also affected postwar American political development. The way that the United States mobilized for World War II and the Cold War institutionalized the corporatist/contract-state model for war mobilization. The way that the United States mobilizes for war has not significantly changed from the way Johnson conceptualized and helped implement sixty-six years ago. McFarland and Roll frame their biography around this profoundly important historical legacy.

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