Books

A reporter follows the workers of a shuttered Indianapolis factory — what America loses when manufacturing disappears.

The iPod and Nest creator's handbook for making physical products — a primer on American hardware craft.

The definitive history of semiconductors as strategic infrastructure — how America lost the lead and why CHIPS Act matters.

How American business produced the arsenal of democracy in WWII — the prior playbook for wartime industrial mobilization.

The classic account of the mid-century American industrial corporation and its technostructure — a benchmark for what we have lost and might recover.

Robert Moses and the building of modern New York — the classic study of infrastructure, state capacity, and political will.

A history of interest rates and capital allocation — essential for understanding how cheap money starved American industry.

A diagnosis of the Great Stagnation — why America stopped producing technological miracles and what it would take to restart.