Book Reviews and Notices : The Hoover Commission Report: On Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. (New York, Toronto and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1949. Pp. xvi, 524. $3.75.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200454
• Date: 01 December 1949
• Published date: 01 December 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

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They are connected and combined into a solid piece of work by means
of the author’s own commentary. In many instances commentary becomes
essay deserving a permanent place in literature. The result is a volume
which no student of public administration can ignore. It reveals admin-
istration as a subject of rich human interest and has inspirational possi-
bilities in maintaining student interest.
The practice of including selections from such wide and varied
sources suggests a problem, as a good book should. Opportunity is now
conveniently provided for further investigation in testing the assump-
tions widely revealed in literature. This search may or may not confirm
the concepts of the uniformity and omnipresence of certain administrative
phenomena.
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G. HOMER DURHAM.
University of Utah.
The Hoover Commission Report: On Organization of the Executive
Branch of the Government. (New York, Toronto and London: Mc-
Graw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1949. Pp. xvi, 524. $3.75.)
Students of public administration will find this compilation of basic
reports by the Hoover Commission to be of particular value in checking
present functions of national administration. The accolade given the re-
port by McGraw-Hill is one not easily achieved; previous studies of simi.
lar nature,...