Making It in America ― A 5-point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home

MAKING IT IN AMERICA presents a five point business plan for running all types of American businesses and fighting the challenges of globalization.

New York Times bestseller, Factory Man, painted a heroic picture of John Bassett III. As Chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co., Bassett lead a successful battle to save hundreds of jobs and an entire Virginia community from vanishing under the pressures of Asian competition and politics of globalization. But saving 700 jobs isn't enough for Bassett--he knows countless more American jobs can be saved. In MAKING IT IN AMERICA, Bassett offers business leaders and managers five proven principles that work, plus dozens of lessons and anecdotes readers can apply to their businesses. Bassett maintains that, while investing in technology is fine, it's really all about the people on your team. Prescriptive, entertaining, and frankly patriotic, here is a unique leadership book about the dignity of hard work and strategies American businesses need.

JOHN BASSETT III is a third-generation factory man who went up against the global market to save his family furniture business. He now employs hundreds of people at Vaughan-Bassett furniture.

ELLIS HENICAN is a long-time New York newspaper columnist, talk radio-host, and on-air commentator at the Fox News Channel. He has written two recentNew York Times bestsellers, Home Team with New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton, andIn the Blink of an Eye with NASCAR legend Michael Waltrip.