TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drummond,Steve
TI  - The watchdog: how the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two 
SN  - 9781335449504
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PB  - Hanover Square Press
KW  - Truman, Harry S.,
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - Senate
KW  - Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1933-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index
N2  - "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
ER  -