The Patriots - An Inside Look at Life in a Defense Plant

Alonso, social worker and factory assembler, is in a unique position to take us into the Belly of the Beast---”American,” not its real name, one of the largest defense contractors in the world. Based on fifteen months of candid reflection between workers about how this work affects their lives, THE PATRIOTS reads like good fiction. But this is a true story and as such it is an expose of corporate military culture.