The Watchdog
How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9781335449504
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-430) and index.