{"product_id":"american-flannel-book-steven-kurutz-9780593329610","title":"American Flannel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.\" -Stephen King, bestselling author (and onetime millworker)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Flannel\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful book--surprising, entertaining, vivid and personal, but also enlightening on the largest questions of America's economic and social future.\" -James Fallows, co-author of \u003ci\u003eOur Towns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe little-engine-that-could story of how a band of scrappy entrepreneurs are reviving the enterprise of manufacturing clothing in the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For decades, clothing manufacture was a pillar of U.S. industry. But beginning in the 1980s, Americans went from wearing 70 percent domestic-made apparel to almost none. Even the very symbol of American freedom and style-blue jeans-got outsourced. With offshoring, the nation lost not only millions of jobs but also crucial expertise and artistry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dismayed by shoddy imported \"fast fashion\"-and unable to stop dreaming of re-creating a favorite shirt from his youth-Bayard Winthrop set out to build a new company, American Giant, that would swim against this trend. \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Steven Kurutz, in turn, began to follow Winthrop's journey. He discovered other trailblazers as well, from the \"Sock Queen of Alabama\" to a pair of father-son shoemakers and a men's style blogger who almost single-handedly drove a campaign to make \"Made in the USA\" cool. Eye-opening and inspiring, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Flannel\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how a band of visionaries and makers are building a new supply chain on the skeleton of the old and wedding old-fashioned craftsmanship to cutting-edge technology and design to revive an essential American dream.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49751214948625,"sku":"NGR9780593329610","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50099488162065,"sku":"CIN0593329619G","price":9.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50205938843921,"sku":"CIN0593329619VG","price":5.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51004284731665,"sku":"NIN9780593329610","price":27.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52901174477073,"sku":"CIN0593329619LN","price":10.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0593329619.jpg?v=1751230878","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/american-flannel-book-steven-kurutz-9780593329610","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}