{"id":52030,"date":"2018-12-02T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=52030"},"modified":"2018-12-02T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T16:10:13","slug":"tdi-podcast-american-business-exceptionalism-590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/02\/tdi-podcast-american-business-exceptionalism-590\/","title":{"rendered":"TDI Podcast: American Business Exceptionalism (#590)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our guest, Arthur Herman shares some incredible stories of success that evolved through a quasi public\/private partnership – before and during WW2.<\/p>\n

Business leaders across all sectors came together with one mind, one goal – win the war. Which business leaders today could be in line to help provide that kind of participate in the future? Who were the real business heroes of WW2?<\/p>\n

Plus we look at the latest update from the G20 meeting and delve into listener questions.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Dr. Arthur Herman<\/a> (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1985) is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestselling How the Scots Invented the Modern World (2001); the Pulitzer Prize Finalist Gandhi and Churchill (2008); To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (nominated for the UK\u2019s Mountbatten Prize); and the highly acclaimed Freedom\u2019s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which The Economist magazine picked as one of the Best Books of 2012.<\/p>\n

His most recent work, 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder, was published by Harper in November of 2017. His previous book, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, was published by Random House in June of 2016.<\/p>\n

Educated at the University of Minnesota and Johns Hopkins University in history and classics, Dr. Herman is a frequent contributor on defense, energy, and technology issues to Commentary magazine, the New York Post, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He was also the first non-British citizen to be named to the Scottish Arts Council from 2007 to 2009.<\/p>\n

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Link to Passive vs. Active Investing Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a>