Book Reviews and Notices : The Social Politics of F. E. P. C. BY LOUIS COLERIDGE KESSELMAN. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1948. Pp. xii, 253. $3.50.)

• Date: 01 December 1949
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200455
• Author: H.K. Hossom
• Published date: 01 December 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

670

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.

_ _ _

_

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,

such

as

that

of

President

Taft’s

Commission

on

Economy

and

Efficiency,

The

Brookings

Report,

and

The

Report

of

the

President’s

Com-

mittee

on

Administrative

Management,

received

no

such

treatment.

This

volume

contains

only

the

official

reports

of

the

Hoover

Commis-

sion

condensing

the

findings

of

the

24

&dquo;task

forces&dquo;

which

worked

on

the

project.

None

of

the

dissents

or

minority

opinions

which

point

out

real

problems

in

reorganization

are

included

in

the

volume.

This

deficiency

will

cause

the

more

careful

student

to

use

this

volume

as

an

index

to

the

complete

renorts.

RENE N.

BALLARD.

University

of

Utah.

The

Social

Politics

of

F.

E.

P.

C.

BY

LOUIS

COLERIDGE

KESSELMAN.

(Cha-

pel

Hill:

University

of

North

Carolina

Press.

1948.

Pp.

xii,

253.

$3.50.)

Since the

early

days

of

World

War

II,

advocates

of

civil

rights

have

opened

a

new

field

of

fair

employment

practices.

Although

they

suc,

ceeded

recently

in

adding

three

western

states

-

Washington,

Oregon,

and

New

Mexico -

to

the

other

half

dozen

states

having

fair

employment

acts,

they

have

failed

thus

far

to

convince

Congress

of

the

wisdom

of

such

acts.