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- The watchdog : how the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War II / by Drummond, Steve,author.(CARDINAL)869237;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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 andthe 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;
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- The watchdog [large print] : how the Truman Committee battled corruption and helped win World War Two / by Drummond, Steve,author.(CARDINAL)869237;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-654)."The Watchdog draws readers into the story of how Harry Truman, a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a team that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House. Drawing on the records of the Truman Committee as well as oral histories, letters, newspaper archives and interviews, Steve Drummond brings the committee's work to life. The Watchdog shows us what can be possible if politicians are governed by the principles rather than self-interest."--- Subjects: Large print books.; Informational works.; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.; United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program.; World War, 1939-1945; Political corruption; Industrial mobilization;
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