James Holland

Make no mistake, because as Europe recovers, more markets emerge.

And that is good news for American manufacturers.

So in the US, GDP is $200 billion in 1940.

It's $300 billion in 1950.

It is $488 billion in 1960.

Well, very possibly.

But it's interesting because I think just to go back to the Four Freedoms that Roosevelt announces in that State of the Nation address in January 1941, they are part of...

the kind of the mythology of the post-war America, this benign superpower, which it's not interested in imperialism.

And they're also, the four freedoms have also been immortalized by Norman Rockwell.

And for those who don't know Norman Rockwell, he's this amazing artist.

He was a sort of almost a cartoonist, but also a,

known for his kind of photographic realism.

And he would do all these front covers on the picture posts.

That's where he made his name.

But he wanted to help in the war effort.

And so he offered to illustrate the four freedoms.

And they're amazing pictures.

I mean, you might, you know, Norman Rockwell's not everyone's bag, but they are amazing pictures.

And they absolutely represent not the cutting edge of America, but...

The kind of the folksy American dream of security, of consumer wealth, of where everyone's got enough to eat.