xiv, 572 pp. CONTENTS: Thomas Jefferson and the Administrative System; The State of the Nation; The Presidency; The President and Congress: Institutional Developments; The President and the Administrative System; The President and the Cabinet; Congress and the Administrative System; Congress and the Control of Expenditures; Congress and Administrative Reform; The Treasury; The Collectors; Accountability: Paralysis and Reform; The State Department; The Domestic Business and the State Department; The War Department; The Army Supply System; The War Department and the Army; West Point and the Army Engineers; The Navy; The Navy Ashore; The Post Office; Postmasters and Contractors; The Office of Attorney General; Personnel Administration: Theory and Practice; Public Service Careers; The Cloud on the Horizon; Jonathan Chooses to Live Snug; Public Service Ethics; The Embargo: An Experiment in Peaceable Coercion; End of the Experiment; Internal Imrovements; "In Regions Wide and Wild": The Management of Indian Affairs; Disposition of the Public Lands; Administrative Dualism: The Case of the Militia; Republican Achievements in Administration; Index.
