Librarian

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Great Arsenal of Democracy
speech delivered December 29, 1940.
The phrase, “Arsenal of Democracy,” has been used as the title of many many books, but our favorite arsenal is the public library:

Arsenals of a democratic culture; a social history of the American public library movement by Sidney Herbert Ditzion. American Library Association, 1947.

Arsenal of democracy, the story of American war production, 1946.

Arsenal of democracy II : American military power in the 1980s, 1981.

Arsenal of democracy in the face of change : economic policy for industrial mobilization in the 1990s, 1989.

Building the arsenal of democracy : the government’s role in expansion of industrial capacity, 1940 to 1945. 1994.

The Late, Great Arsenal of Democracy.1995.

An arsenal for democracy : media accountability systems, 2003.

Arsenal of Democracy America’s War on Terror Continues. 2004.

The arsenal of democracy in the age of terror : evaluating the effectiveness of military assistance as a counter-terrorism strategy, 2004.

POETRY – Motown, Arsenal of Democracy, 2005.

Detroit’s wartime industry : arsenal of democracy, 2007.

And coming soon… Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security — From World War II to the War on Terrorism,” will be published this fall by Julian E. Zelizer.

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