Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II by Kryder, Daniel. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521004589.

This book describes and analyzes FDRs methods of war mobilization, by focusing on his administrations race manpower policies. Widespread but little-known racial violence threatened to disrupt the American war effort, and the Army as well as production officials struggled throughout the war to control and retain the allegiance of African-Americans. Like the centurys three other Democratic presidents fighting wars, FDR struggled to contain racial unrest by deploying new policy tools suited to particular forms of friction.