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Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Down on the Farm -- 2. The Incredible Bell Laboratories -- 3. Edison's Amazing Inventions -- 4. Edible Inventions -- 5. Fort Monmouth, Camp Evans and the U.S. Army Signal Corps Inventions: Secret Then, Fascinating Now -- 6. Quirky Creations and Firsts -- 7. They're from New Jersey? -- 8. Science and Safety Inventions -- 9. Home Improvements -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

AbstractOur society has the habit of writing about exemplars after they are no longer with us; this is certainly important and beneficial but misses the opportunity to engage them in a personal reflection on their lives and the contributions/lessons they most want to share. This essay is intended to address this common oversight by sharing the marvelous 61‐year career of Charles Goodsell, by first recounting his still active professional journey and closing with his own personal advice to academics, practitioners, and students.

This article uses the normative framework provided by the concept of autonomy grounded in subordination to view competing institutional pressures in three government agencies (the Office of Management and Budget, the General Accounting Office, and the Department of Justice). This framework suggests that the proper perspective for viewing an agency in a government of separate but shared powers is one of balancing responsibility to multiple masters. The use of the subordinate autonomy framework fosters an attitude that embraces the ambiguity and tensions of governance, and will heighten awareness of what it means to practice administrative statesmanship.

Despite the growing concern over recruiting and retaining the "best and the brightest" in government, the evidence suggests there is very little structured career management activity at either the individual or agency level in the federal government. This article suggests that one of the reasons for this is a lack of accepted conceptual frameworks for understandingcareermotiva tion. Schein's classic career anchor theory is examined as a potential source of such a framework, and implications for a career management strategy in the federal government are discussed.

This article explores Rohr's concept of constitutional subordinate autonomy: public administrators exercising discretion to maintain the constitutional balance of powers among the three branches. In-depth interviews with mid-level administrators representing nine federal organizations provide rich illustrations that reveal the usefulness and limitations of this concept. The article concludes that although average administrators may not explicitly think of their role in constitutional terms, the concept of subordinate autonomy is relevant to examples from their careers where they have exercised discretion. Furthermore, the concept provides an important way of thinking about the role of the public administrator that both legitimizes and provides a principled basis for responding to situations involving responsiveness to multiple constitutional masters.