Craig Nelson on Military & WWII Historian

Published: June 22, 2023, 5:30 a.m.

b'New York Times bestselling historian Craig Nelson reveals how FDR confronted an American public disinterested in going to war in Europe, skillfully won their support, and pushed government and American industry to build the greatest war machine in history, \\u201cthe arsenal of democracy\\u201d that won World War II.\\n\\nJoin us when Craig Nelson traces how Franklin D. Roosevelt steadily and sometimes secretively put America on a war footing by convincing America\\u2019s top industrialists such as Henry Ford Jr. to retool their factories, by diverting the country\\u2019s supplies of raw materials to the war effort, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.'