Book Excerpt: The Watchdog | April 24, 2024
The Watchdog
How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
By Steve Drummond
Winner of the 2024 Harry S. Truman Book Award
EXCERPT FROM THE WATCHDOG
Portland, Oregon, January 16, 1943
SATURDAY NIGHT WAS QUIETER THAN USUAL in war-booming Portland. A cold snap on Friday had killed two people in a storm that brought high winds and left a thin blanket of snow across the city. Temperatures were expected to sink into the low twenties.
