Anyone interested in this period might enjoy Maury Klein's, A Call to Arms, about how the US organized and ran the war on the industrial and national economy basis here at home. It sounds bizarre I know, but this 900 page tome on how we set up boards to decide who built what (Ford built B-24s, Kaiser built Liberty Ships, etc.), and how steel, aluminum, copper, tolulen and rubber were allocated when there was never enough, etc., is absolutely fascinating. It really brings home what it was like to live in America at that time, when the country felt its back to the wall and the term "I'm unemployed" was not only non-existent, but considered unpatriotic.
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