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From Home Furnishing Business
Factory Man on C-SPAN2
August 14,
2014 by in Casegoods, Product 
Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co. Chairman John Bassett and author Beth Macy will appear on C-SPAN2 this Sunday night to discuss Macy’s book, “Factory Man.”
The 90-minute show is part of the C-SPAN2 series “Booknotes” and will run from 10-11:30 p.m. The network sent cameras last week to a book discussion held at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Roanoke, Va., which featured Beth Macy, the author of “Factory Man,” and the book’s main subject, John Bassett. About 300 people attended the event.
“Factory Man” chronicles John Bassett’s career at both Bassett Furniture Inds. and at Vaughan-Bassett, the company he joined in 1984, where he has spent decades as a leader. Much of the book focuses on his efforts to modernize Vaughan-Bassett’s factories and to remain a domestic manufacturer in the face of foreign competition. Today Vaughan-Bassett is the largest wooden bedroom furniture maker in the United States, with sales of more than $80 million and with about 700 employees.
Macy’s book has made the New York Times nonfiction hardcover bestseller list during each of the four weeks since “Factory Man” was released by Little, Brown and Company. Macy’s first book has received rave reviews from a diverse range of publications including The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Garden and Gun Magazine and actor, director and producer Tom Hanks.
Macy and “Factory Man” also received the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Work-In-Progress Award from the Columbia University Journalism School in 2013.