Divided Arsenal

This book describes and analyzes FDR''s methods of war mobilization by focusing on his administration''s 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 century''s three other Democratic presidents fighting wars FDR struggled to contain racial unrest by deploying new policy tools suited to particular forms of friction.