The Watchdog*WINNER OF THE 2024 HARRY S. TRUMAN BOOK AWARD* 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

and the realization that no one in a family is invisible

But in all his seasons on the trail

wanted—summer nights watching Cam’s softball games

”—Cammie McGovern

“[A] searing and ultimately liberating memoir

or when kids are hoping for a snow day

Shortlisted -- CBCA 2010 (Early Childhood)

From Al Gore and Bob Geldof to Mikhail Gorbachev and Colonel Gaddafi

international espionage

Books like these are important: They track the journey of our thinking about food

like that of his Uncle Lester who writes flop Broadway musicals

something special