RIPER, Paul P. Van <br/><br/>
Some anomalies in the deep history of U.S. public administration 

 - malden, MA :  Blackwell Publishers,  may/june 1997 
<br/><br/> This is a highly personal ramble along some of the highways and byways within U.S. public administration. The author advises that a possible subtitle for the essay - "ignorance, error and oddity in our discourse about public administration in the united states" - is fully suggestive of the contents, and that to say more here wold unduly reveal the plot(s).