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Detailing the hit that American manufacturing, shipping and labor took through the pandemic, Rachel Slade explores what was lost, why and what it would truly take to bring it back. This is a moving and intimate narrative on a timely subject written with excellent reportage.Meet Ben and Whitney Waxman, two tireless idealists attempting to do the impossible: produce an American-made, union-made, all American-sourced sweatshirt—an American hoodie.Ben spent a decade organizing workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin, fighting for Americans at a time when national support for unions had sunk to an all-time low. Struggling with depression and a drug dependency, Ben lands back in his hometown of Portland, Maine, desperate to prove that ethical manufacturing is possible. There, he meets Whitney, a bartender wrestling with her own complicated past. In each other they see a better future, a version of the American dream they can build together.Making It in America is a deeply personal account of one… Read More