The watchdog : how the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two /
Drummond, Steve,
The watchdog : how the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two / Steve Drummond. - 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index.
"Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight--all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and corruption. In The Watchdog, Steve Drummond draws the reader into the fast-paced story of how Harry Truman, still a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House." -- inside front jacket flap. Drawing on records of the Truman Committee as well as other materials, an award-winning senior editor and executive producer at NPR recounts how Harry Truman cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon to fight wartime corruption, paving his path to the White House.
9781335449504 1335449507
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.
Political corruption--History--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
The watchdog : how the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two / Steve Drummond. - 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index.
"Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight--all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and corruption. In The Watchdog, Steve Drummond draws the reader into the fast-paced story of how Harry Truman, still a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House." -- inside front jacket flap. Drawing on records of the Truman Committee as well as other materials, an award-winning senior editor and executive producer at NPR recounts how Harry Truman cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon to fight wartime corruption, paving his path to the White House.
9781335449504 1335449507
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.
Political corruption--History--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.