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_aDrummond, Steve, _eauthor. |
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_aThe watchdog : _bhow the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two / _cSteve Drummond. |
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_aToronto, Ontario, Canada : _bHanover Square Press, _c[2023] |
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_a447 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm |
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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. | ||
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_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zUnited States. _923097 |
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_aUnited States. _bCongress. _bSenate. _bSpecial Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. |
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_aTruman, Harry S., _d1884-1972. _966685 |
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_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1933-1945. _921181 |
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_aPolitical corruption _xHistory _y20th century. |
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