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The watchdog : how the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two / Steve Drummond.
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- ISBN: 9781335449504
- ISBN: 1335449507
- Physical Description: 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2023]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | 940.537 DRU (Text) | 33430152330981 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| 264 | 1. | ‡aToronto, Ontario, Canada : ‡bHanover Square Press, ‡c[2023] | |
| 300 | . | ‡a447 pages : ‡billustrations ; ‡c24 cm | |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index. | |
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| 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. | |
| 610 | 1 | 0. | ‡aUnited States. ‡bCongress. ‡bSenate. ‡bSpecial Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. |
| 600 | 1 | 0. | ‡aTruman, Harry S., ‡d1884-1972. |
| 651 | 0. | ‡aUnited States ‡xPolitics and government ‡y1933-1945. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aPolitical corruption ‡xHistory ‡y20th century. | |
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