Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home - Hardcover

JOHN D. 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 journalist, a television commentator, and the co-author of five New York Times bestsellers.

If more manufacturers approached the threat of global competition with John Bassett's grit, creativity and common sense, America's factories might soon start humming again. Bassett has figured out how to make profits while putting his workers front and center, a quality that business leaders who care about America (and American consumers) would be wise to emulate.―Beth Macy, author of the New York Times bestselling Factory Man

John Bassett's insight and wisdom is authentic and practical, being drawn directly from experience on the shop floor and combat on the front lines of international trade.―Claude B. Nielsen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc.

John Bassett has been a leading figure in the furniture industry for decades. His passion for preserving U.S. jobs, evident throughout his insightful and provocative book, is an inspiration to all of us who take pride in American manufacturing.―Kurt Darrow, CEO, La-Z-Boy Incorporated

John Bassett is an icon in the furniture industry and a world-class leader and manager. And he's a street fighter, too. You can learn his business methods and secrets in this important new book.―Keith Koenig, President, City Furniture

John Bassett built Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company into the largest wooden bedroom maker in the United States by betting on the ability of his Virginia workers to compete - and win - against workers anywhere in the world. Making It in America tells readers exactly how he did it, providing a blueprint for motivating and inspiring any workforce facing its own unique challenges.―Senator Mark R. Warner

When you lead from within, a remarkable power is realized. John's plan-commonsense communication-works.―Roger O'Shaughnessy, CEO/ Chairman, Cardinal Glass Ind.

Making It in America is a book of strong lessons that must be learned to exist in a global economy, told in commonsense wording with the parables only a man of the old South can tell. I only wish it was longer.―W.W. "Jerry" Epperson, Jr., Mann, Armistead & Epperson, LTD.