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An excellent biography of a most impressive man. Higgins had insight, guts, drive and the arrogance to take on the US Navy...and win!
"Wars are won in the factory" Stalin once said - given that Higgins build over 12,000 (90% of all naval craft) boats for the navy in WW2, it's a good thing he was so persistent. Andrew Jackson Higgins had a fast learning curve, was an aggressive salesman with a phenomenal memory. He not only mass produced more craft than anyone else, he did so with an eye to those on the factory floor. He took care of 'his' people - indeed, the workers built their own community calling it Our Town.
Higgins was not afraid to bend rules - if he didn't exactly have the legal rights to expand his factories into the neighboring cemetery, well, he was sure he would soon get approval (he did). If he needed critically short supply high quality steel, his men could 'liberate' it and later repay for it (he did).
Ironically, the company he founded was lost, not to inability to change from war time to peace time production, but for labor disputes created by a multitude of unions fighting amongst themselves over who would represent the workers. Also revealing questions regarding whether or not returning war vets should have priority of jobs vs. those who did not serve.
I would have preferred to see some diagrams, cut-aways, blue prints of the craft under discussion, but this is a biography of Higgins, not a technical manual of what he designed. There is enough detail for the layman to understand and this book is fantastic enough without them. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about a powerful, self made man, WW2 logistics and the 'can-do' patriotic spirit that existed in WW2.
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- IanReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2010
Well-told tale of a remarkable man
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