{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Detroit in WWII - Author Gregory Sumner","description":"A look inside the "Arsenal of Democracy" as Professor Gregory Sumner of University of Detroit Mercy joins Digging Detroit's Thomas J. Reed Jr. and Detroit History Tours' Bailey Sisoy Isgro at Detroit's historic Abick's Bar.   Sumner previews his upcoming book-signing, Detroit in WWII, at Abick's on November 10, 2015.\r\nThanks to our Abick's host, Eric and Kit, we visit with Prof. Sumner in the cigar room--formerly a barber shop.  Amazing eats was provided once again by Andy Surowiec of Smokin' Pole BBQ!\r\nTopics include:\r\n\r\nAdvantages of being an Hoosier looking in at Detroit\r\nComing out of isolationism with the $1 men and patriotism of Joe Louis and  Edsel Ford\r\nWarren Tanks and Willow Run--designed by the son of a German rabbi\r\nSoldier Hank Greenberg's home run--"hitting one against Hitler"\r\nThe third shift--and loosening of conventions for women and children\r\nFemale pay disparity greater now than in WWII\r\nRacial tensions and the Detroit wartime riot\r\nDetroit expressways created for WWII but ironically accelerating white flight--and who stayed.\r\n\r\n\r\n(Order yours on Amazon.)\r\n ","author_name":"MyMediaDiary Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/mymediadiary.libsyn.com","html":"