Forged in the white-hot furnaces of the American "Iron Age," James J. Davis rose from a teenage master puddler to the United States Cabinet. In The Iron Puddler, Davis recounts his dramatic journey from a Welsh immigrant boy to the Secretary of Labor. Known as the "Napoleon of Fraternity," he transformed thousands of lives by founding Mooseheart, a "City of Happy Children" providing fatherless youth with "a high-school education and a trade". His "philosophy of the forge" puddled the impurities of labor into a legacy of brotherhood, paving the way for future leaders like Frances Perkins
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