Prairie Forge

2021 One Book One Nebraska selection 2015 Nebraska Book Award in Nonfiction: Nebraska Spirit, from Nebraska Center for the Book In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program’s momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. The country needed scrap metal. Henry Doorly, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald , had the solution. Prairie Forge tells the story of the