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092 _a940.5373
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049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aDrummond, Steve,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe watchdog :
_bhow the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two /
_cSteve Drummond.
264 1 _aToronto, Ontario, Canada :
_bHanover Square Press,
_c[2023]
300 _a447 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index.
520 _a"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.
520 _aDrawing 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.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zUnited States.
_923097
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bCongress.
_bSenate.
_bSpecial Committee Investigating the National Defense Program.
600 1 0 _aTruman, Harry S.,
_d1884-1972.
_966685
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1933-1945.
_921181
650 0 _aPolitical corruption
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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