"The Revolutionary War has been won, and the newly independent nation is fraught with anxieties--threatened by enemies at home and abroad. In Manufacturing Advantage, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele shows how the government (especially the Departments of State and War) promoted industrial...

"The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermined an...

Keynote addresses: perspectives on manufacturing USA -- Panel 1: alternative public-private partnership models -- Panel 2: international programs in advanced manufacturing -- Breakout sessions: feedback and future directions for the DoD Manufacturing USA institutes -- Discussion.