Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

by Rachel Slade

To be independant [sic] for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves…. He therefore who is now against domestic manufacture must be for reducing us either to dependance [sic] on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins…. Experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independance [sic]as to our comfort. —Thomas Jefferson, during the War of 1812