Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

I've gotten a lot of feedback from listeners. You would all be interested in history-focused episodes

that obviously hit on the political and policy themes of the Realignment,

but also just tell interesting and relevant stories. So here's what we're gonna do to offer a bit of signposting.

Every Friday that doesn't feature an Ask Me Anything episode with Sogger via our super-gast description,

I'm gonna do an unpay-walled episode focused on American and global history.

First up, today's episode is with NPR's Strieve Drummond on his new book, The Watchdog,

How the Trimming Committee Battered Corruption and Helped Win World War Two. This is a particularly

interesting conversation in light of my episode of Rep Mike Gallagher, earlier this year. His China

Select Committee could take plenty of notes from Truman's efforts before and during World War Two.

I'll be expanding my thoughts on the book and this episode in the Realignment Substack,

so be sure to subscribe at the link in the show notes or go to therealignment.substack.com. And yes,

that is a little different from the super-cast website, so be sure to click the proper show note

in the podcast player of your choice. To wrap, it feels cheesy to say, but in light of the disastrous

drop in NAP, US history, and civics test scores amongst eighth graders this past year,

it's more important than ever to listen to these sorts of conversations and support the work of

authors like Strieve. So you can purchase the Watchdog at our bookshop link in the show notes.

Hope you all enjoy this conversation and definitely let me know what upcoming books or

previously written books you'd love to cover on the show along with other areas of history and

politics. See you on next time.

Strieve and Drummond, welcome to The Realignment.

Hey, good to be here. Thanks, Marshall.

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