<P>Writing the perfect complement to their bestseller, <I>Introducing Public Administration</I>, Shafritz and Borick highlight the great drama inherent in public policy -- and the ingenuity of its makers and administrators -- in this new casebook that brings thrilling, true life adventures in public administration to life in an engaging, witty style.</P>
<P>Drawing on a unique assortment of literary, historic, and modern examples, <I>Cases in Public Policy and Administration</I> exposes students to public administration in practice by telling the tales of:</P>
<UL>
<LI>How Thurgood Marshall led the legal fight for civil rights and made it possible for Barack Obama to become president</LI>
<LI>How the ideas of an academic economist and a famous novelist led to the recession that started in 2008</LI>
<LI>How Al Gore really deserves just a little bit of credit for inventing the Internet</LI>
<LI>How the decision was made by President Harry Truman to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan in order to end World War II</LI>
<LI>How the current American welfare state was inspired by a German chancellor</LI>
<LI>How a Nazi war criminal inadvertently provided the world with a lesson in bureaucratic ethics </LI>
<LI>How Napoleon Bonaparte encouraged the job of chief of staff to escape from the military and live in contemporary civilian offices</LI>
<LI>How an obscure state department bureaucrat wrote the policy of containment that allowed the United States to win the Cold War with the Soviet Union </LI>
<LI>How Dwight D. Eisenhower was started on the road to the presidency by a mentor he found in the Panamanian rain forest</LI>
<LI>How Florence Nightingale gathered statistics during the Crimean War that helped lead to contemporary program evaluation.</LI></UL>