{"product_id":"heavy-metal-the-hard-days-and-nights-of-the-shipyard-workers-who-build-americas-supercarriers-isbn-9780062996251","title":"Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTip the Empire State Building onto its side and you’ll have a sense of the length of the United States Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the most powerful in the world: the USS John F. Kennedy. Weighing 100,000 tons, Kennedy features the most futuristic technology ever put to sea, making it the most agile and lethal global weapon of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly one place possesses the brawn, brains and brass to transform naval warfare with such a creation – the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its 30,000 employees and shipyard workers. This is their story, the riggers, fitters, welders, electricians, machinists and other steelworkers who built the next-generation aircraft carrier. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeavy Metal puts us on the waterfront and into the lives of these men and women as they battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers and a pandemic to complete a ship that will be essential to protect America’s way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe city of Newport News owes its very existence to the company that bears its name. The shipyard dominates the town—physically, politically, financially, socially, and culturally. Thanks to the yard, the city grew from a backwater to be the home of the premier naval contractor in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeavy Metal captures an indelible moment in the history of a shipyard, a city, and a country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis gripping look inside Newport News Shipbuilding reveals:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAircraft Carrier Construction:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow the decade-long journey to build the 100,000-ton USS \u003ci\u003eJohn F. 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This poignant portrait of working-class life will appeal to fans of Studs Terkel.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHeavy Metal\u003c\/em\u003e, which plows sturdily through the swells and troughs of big-ticket ship construction, does a noble thing in affirming that nowhere else in the world has this species of freedom been built so well and for so long.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A deep-diving contribution to marine engineering and transportation history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHeavy Metal\u003c\/em\u003e presents a fresh, sympathetic perspective on the human aspects of the shipbuilding industry. 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