Glenn Fine, a 1974 graduate of Cheltenham High School and an Alumni Association Hall of Famer, is coming out with a new book this August. 

Fine served as the inspector general of the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 and was the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense from 2016 to 2020.

His first book, titled “WATCHDOGS: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government”, discusses the role inspectors general play in maintaining the integrity of U.S. government operations.

From the book’s description on Amazon.com:

Drawing on his own experiences in numerous high-profile investigations over two decades, from 9/11 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Fine provides a fascinating insider’s view of government at the highest levels, illuminating how federal officials spend our tax dollars and how inspector general oversight seeks to make government more honest and accountable. Full of revealing stories—from the FBI’s handling of evidence in the Timothy McVeigh trial to the treatment of post-9/11 detainees to investigating the US Navy’s most infamous corruption scandal—Watchdogs illustrates the mission of inspectors general in improving government operations, deterring wasteful spending, and curtailing corruption, and the ways they work every day in America’s unique system of oversight. 

Fine went on to graduate from Harvard University, where he was the co-captain of the Varsity basketball team and was selected in the 1979 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs, becoming the first and only CHS grad ever to be drafted. He passed up the opportunity to accept the Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford and later earned a law degree from Harvard Law School.

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