Midnight in the Garden of PA

Abstract

The authors reflect on the Minnowbrook tradition which, in their view, derives in major part from soul-searching efforts among public administration scholars following revelations of the "Kerner Report" of 1968 into civil disorders happening over the past years in major metropolitan areas all over the U.S. They note that such disorders were the outburst of profound desperation and anger surging from many years of double dealing by the nation and state governments in matters of race and civil rights.