Register to Attend >> Support our Seminar Series >>Buy the Book >>Thursday, 2 October 2025 Seminar Series Live Zoom EventWelcome & Lecture at 7:00 PM ET, Q&A to FollowBefore the United States entered World War II, U-boats were sinking ships and Washington knew logistics would decide the conflict. In this talk, author Doug Most traces how Franklin Roosevelt and Henry J. Kaiser built a nationwide shipbuilding program from scratch, trained a diverse workforce, and drastically cut build times to send Liberty ships to sea. Richly researched and ceaselessly captivating, Launching Liberty brings tolife the overlooked story of an industrial miracle that proved essential in winningthe war against Nazi Germany. Doug Most gives us a timely and much neededreminder of what the United States can achieve when government, titans of commerce andordinary citizens join together in common cause and an urgent spirit of determination. He is the author of three books: The Race Underground, a narrative history of the birth of the Boston and New York subways; Always in Our Hearts, a true-crime account; and Launching Liberty.