Leonard D. White is the great historian of the field of public administration in the United States. His technique was to study administration in the context of grouped U.S. presidential periods. An important founder of the field, White worked at the University of Chicago after service in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Biography

• Weber J., “Leonard Dupee White and Public Administration”, Journal of Management History, Volume 2, Number 2, February 1996, pp. 41-64

Publications

• The Federalists: a Study in Administrative History, The MacMillan Co., 1956.
• The Jeffersonians: a Study in Administrative History
• The Republican Era, 1869-1901 a Study in Administrative History, MacMillan, 1958

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