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The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman.. 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.
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Steve Drummond is a journalist, educator and author who for more than 20 years has been a senior editor at NPR in Washington. He is the author of The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two. At NPR, Drummond has held a variety of roles, including national editor, supervising editor of All Things Considered, and executive producer of the network's Code Switch podcast and its education reporting team. His work has been honored with many of journalism's highest honors, including three Peabody Awards and two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University AwardsIn 2013, he taught at Princeton University, and currently teaches in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Drummon grew up near Detroit, and holds a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees from the University of Michigan. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
