Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi

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The beloved saint's remarkable life is re-created through vignettes. An ALA Notable Book. Introduction, historical note, list of dates.

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The Simple Poor Man of Assisi.......2005-11-26

As with all of Tomie de Paola's books for children, the story and the artwork are well worth reading and enjoying. While it is geared for children 4-8 years old (with the older being able to read it for themselves) adults can also enjoy her books in general and this book in particular. The watercolor pictures done in deep earth tones is a delight to the eyes and covers all of one of each two facing pages. While this book focuses on St. Francis, it also talks about St. Clare to a lesser degree.
From the cover of this book you can read "Mr. de Paola's lifelong ambition has been to bring the story of St. Francis to people of all ages and cultures. Drawing on his extensive artistic background, primary source material, and two trips to Assisi, he has finally made this dream come true." About his book Tomie states " have tried to give you at least a glimpse of their [Francis' and Clare's] lives; a glimpse into the essential Franciscan spirit - simplicity, joy, the love of nature, and the love of Lady Poverty."
Thus you will get the usual parts of his life - his:
youth,
being captured in battle,
being called by Jesus' to "rebuild my church"
taking his father's money to give to the priest
repairing the church of San Damiano, San Pietro and what would be known as the Portiuncula
publicly separating from his father
joyful celebrating his new life
being joined by others
going before the pope and having his community blessed
preaching to the birds
befriending the wolf of Gubbio
staging the first live Christmas creche
meeting with St. Clare
receiving the stigmata, and finally,
having his brothers sing the song to the sun at his death.
It also tells of St. Clare and her:
sisters and mother joining her in community
blessing the meal and how "suddenly on every loaf a cross appeared".
But it also tells other stories not normally told - his:
needing to be born in a barn
prophecy about himself received from a beggar
first non-religious follower - Jacopa de Settesoli.

Memorable!.......2003-01-13

I was looking for a book that would teach children as well as entertain them, and I was skeptical that I would find one that did both. Tomie DePaola is an absolute winner! The stories are complete, rather than abbreviated as so many children's stories are. He gives the children credit for being able to appreciate and understand the complex stories of St. Francis's life. The account of when Francis renounced his father was depicted completely, but respectful. His remarkable illustrations are helpful as well. In a time when we need to be teaching simplicity, this is the book to read to your children! If you love this book, I would also recommend his book on St. Patrick!

Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi.......2000-04-11

For anyone who is a fan of Tomie DePaola and wants to teach children about St. Francis of Assisi this is a terrific book. I have read this book to my children, to my religious education class and shared it with adults studying the spirituality of St. Francis. It appeals to both children and adults. Children love the stories and adults are inspired by how Mr. DePaola brings St. Francis to life. He took the time not only to research the text of the book but also the illustrations. He actually drew St. Francis from the likeness painted by the artist who knew him. It's a must have for those who celebrate St. Francis Day.

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FRANCIS THE POOR MAN OF ASSISI
Tomie de Paola
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WQXUSG

In Honor of St. Francis: Music for the Little Poor Man of Assisi

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In Honor of St. Francis: Music for the Little Poor Man of Assisi
Michael J. Thompson
Manufacturer: Liturgical Pr
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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The Little Poor Man ("Il Poverello"): The Life-Drama of Saint Francis of Assisi

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The Little Poor Man ("Il Poverello"): The Life-Drama of Saint Francis of Assisi
Harry Lee
Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000T0Q5NM

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The poor man of Assisi: Saint Francis
Teresa Lloyd
Manufacturer: Franciscan Herald Press
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Saint Francis of Assisi: Being a series of 13 vignettes on the little poor man of Assisi

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Saint Francis of Assisi: Being a series of 13 vignettes on the little poor man of Assisi
Louise M. Stacpoole Kenny
Manufacturer: Franciscan Herald Press
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Saint Francis of Assisi: The little poor man

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Saint Francis of Assisi: The little poor man
Margaret R Cullen
Manufacturer: Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
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ASIN: B0007FB2I2

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Francis : The Poor Man of Assisi
Tomie dePaola
Manufacturer: Holiday House, Incorporated
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Francis, the little poor man of Assisi,: A short story of the founder of the Brothers Minor,

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Francis, the little poor man of Assisi,: A short story of the founder of the Brothers Minor,
James Granville Adderley
Manufacturer: E. Arnold
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Francis, the little poor man of Assisi: With a short story of the founder of the Brothers Minor

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Francis, the little poor man of Assisi: With a short story of the founder of the Brothers Minor
J. G Adderley
Manufacturer: E. Arnold
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ASIN: B00087OEV6

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Quite Accurate

Where to begin a study of modern U.S. Air Assault tactics

Concise history of First Cav's Ia Drang Valley campaign.

Accurate, documentary-style history by one who was there.

Pleiku
J. D. Coleman
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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Binding: Paperback

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Quite Accurate.......2001-01-03

I came across this book back in 1989 when a friend asked me if my father was Sgt. Eugene Pennington who served in Vietnam. It turned out that he was reading this book and came across my father's name mentioned in it. I had been hearing my father talk of his experiences in Vietnam over the years and was amazed to find a book that so accurately informed the reader of the Vietnam experience. By reading this book, I became quite familiar with the tactics that my father had been trying to relate to me. I bought a copy of the book and gave it to him for Father's Day. To this day I still believe that it was the best gift I ever gave him. I would greatly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about helicopter warfare in the Vietnam era.

Where to begin a study of modern U.S. Air Assault tactics.......2000-08-14

If you want to know where America's Air Assault tactics came from, how they developed in Vietnam and by implication how Army Aviation is in trouble today--begin with this book! Have your highlight pen ready when you examine the decisions and actions of the brave pioneers who created 3-D Air Assault capabilities in our Army at the behest of Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara (he could do good things once in a while!). If you read carefully you will see that to get the drastic Army structural changes needed, the capabilities of helicopters were oversold--to get large numbers of helicopters, the ground vehicle was dismissed as a tool with the helicopter doing EVERYTHING. General Kinnard and his wizards of the 11th Airborne Division [later reflagged the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)] went about having helicopters do everything---place troops around the battlefield, act as CAS gunships, fly-in artillery for fire bases--except stay in the "death ground" of enemy fire (re: Colonel Bolger's book: "Death Ground: America's Infantry in battle") as an armored shield and protected transportation means carrying superior levels of firepower. So while Air Assault operations could "run circles" around the enemy on the map board, once Sky Troopers left their mounts, they were vulnerable to enemy fire fighting the enemy "even" at best---as the more numerous enemy could absorb untold casualties without ill effect at home. Its interesting that the helicopter-replacing-everything hubris negated the understanding of the need to field a helicopter-transportable light Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV) that could "Air-Mech" with Sky Troopers into battle and give them dominance from that point on in the operation. The M551 Sheridan light tank was available though 7 tons too heavy for the CH-47 Chinook; (I have seen photos of it lifted by the CH-54 Sky Crane heavy lift helicopter) why it wasn't airdropped from fixed-wing C-130 Hercules aircraft and used for 3-D maneuver fire support by the one parachute-qualified Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division is a mystery--the French Airborne parachuted all over the countryside in the first Indo-China war. Perhaps it was the urgency of getting a force that could maneuver deep into the Central Highlands of Vietnam before the enemy cut the South into two over-rode deeper analysis and force-on-force war games to reveal structural flaws and correct them. America was at war.

As you read this superb book which should be a companion to LTG Hal Moore/Joe Galloway's "We were Soldiers once and young" account of the Ia Drang battle fought by the 1st Cav, you get a sense that we miscalculated and were thinking "big blue arrows"--operationally impressed by helicopter distance/speed 3-D maneuver capability and overly reliant on distant artillery howitzer/aircraft supporting arms and overlooked the up close "belt buckle" fight that the enemy chose to fight whenever possible because it would curtail our long-range fires since he had the advantage in RPG explosives weapons effects (ready-to-fire, doesn't need to be unfolded like a M72 LAW) while we fought him "even"; our M16s versus his AKMs, our grenades versus his grenades, our bayonets versus his bayonets, our casualties versus his numbers.

Today, the "pendulum" has swung the other way with the helicopter Air Assault delivering foot-mobile troops implies casualty risks and some Commanders are willing to surrender 3-Dimensional maneuver to the enemy and fight "heavy" only along the 2-D axis, once again over-relying on distant supporting arms fires to defeat the enemy (but its digitized and "precision" this time!) though this means you will be channelized and ambushed in ground vehicle restricted terrain. That aircraft (Aviation branch) could work TOGETHER with tracked AFVs (Armor branch) to position the latter into "go" terrain to overcome the enemy was possible then and certainly do-able today with lighter AFVs like the 3-4 ton German Airborne Wiesel which can be lifted even by the Huey's replacement, the UH-60L Blackhawk.

The solution is to read this book and put yourself in the shoes of the decision makers like a good war simulation, draw on your history and combine Airborne and Air Assault capabilities using that magnificent air-droppable M113 that was rumbling all over the countryside (Coleman mentions go/no-go for tracked vehicle terrain considerations in his book), the new M551 Sheridan light tank, and combine the best attrributes of 3-D and 2-D maneuver into one. The lesson today is to field the M8 Armored Gun System successor to the M551 and modernize the latest M113A3, buy some Wiesels for recon and create an Air-Mech 3-D capability in the U.S. Army today before we fight in another place like Vietnam again. We cannot hope to chose where/when we can fight ("We don't do mountains and we don't do jungles"), living for a replay of the open desert to stampede our heavy armored caccoons ala' Desert Storm---we must be ready to go where America sends us. When South Vietnam was in danger of being severed by the NVA in 1965-66 we sent the best we had: the 1st Air Cavalry Division and they saved the day, though at a cost so high we could not sustain the support at home for the noble endeavor. At least Kinnard's men had some time to run tests and conduct experiments, we may not be so lucky. NOW is the time to get ready, this book would be a good place to start.

Concise history of First Cav's Ia Drang Valley campaign........1999-03-06

Coleman chronicles the history of the Ia Drang campaign from the viewpoints of many levels of the combatants - from brigade, battalion and company commanders to platoon and squad NCO's and skytroopers. Also insights from captured NVA documents and maps on their battle plans. I found his chapters covering the LZ XRay and LZ Albany actions gripping text.

Accurate, documentary-style history by one who was there........1998-06-05

The author makes history interesting. He covers probably the most significant transition in tactics undertaken by the U.S. Army in the 20th century--"freeing infrantry from the terrain". The First Cav tactics would later be emulated by most of the U.S. infantry units in Vietnam, and later by the ARVN, but no other units ever had anywhere near the rotary wing assets available as did the Cav. What the Cav initiated tactically in the Ia Drang Valley battles led to the evolution to their "pile on" tactics employed later in the war. Their massive airlift capability was the great equalizer in later battles with numerically- superior and well-armed NVA units--battles often (perhaps generally) initiated by Cav "Blue" Platoons of its 9th Cavalry Squadron. Readers interested in this book will find even greater detail, and a much more focused account of the battles at LZ Xray and LZ Albany in Harold Moore's and Joe Galloway's book: "We Were Soldiers Once--And Young". Other good reading is Mathew Brennan's "Brennan's War" (his personal account serving as a member of a Cav Blue Platoon in 1967-69), and his:"Headhunters" (also about Blue Platoons in the Cav), and "Hunter/Killer Teams" (about scout/cobra "Pink" teams). J.D. Coleman also wrote an excellent book about 1st Cav operations in 1969-70, including the invasion of the Cambodian "sanctuaries" in May of 1970, entitled "Incursion".

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War Stories by Babcock a must read
War Stories-Utah Beach to Pleiku by Robert O. Babcock
War stories from those who lived them
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War Stories, Utah Beach to Pleiku
Robert O. Babcock
Manufacturer: Saint John's Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0971055106

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"War Stories, Utah Beach to Pleiku," is a collection of the memories of veterans and their service in the 4th Infantry Division. The book covers the period of World War II, The Cold War, and Vietnam--more than thirty-years of rich history from 1940 through 1970.

In "War Stories," there are 325 accounts from WWII veterans. In them, they describe their early training as they prepared for a war that they knew was coming, but had no name for. In great detail they portray the bloody assault on Utah Beach, on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and their subsequent fight through the hedgerows of Normandy.

They were the first division to enter Paris, and they rightfully lay claim to the honor of liberating that famous city.

They were the first division to breach the "impenetrable" Siegfired line and assure the destruction of Hitler's war machine. From there, they slugged their way through one of the bloodiest battles of the war in the Hurtgen Forest, going on to distinguish themselves again in Luxembourg and the Battle of the Bulge. Their stories are firsthand accounts of the conduct of that war and they conclude with stories from the home front, and their occupation period in the aftermath of WWII.

In the 1950s, the 4th Infantry Division faced the Russion threat along the borders of Europe and their tales authenticate the dangers of that period.

Again, in Vietnam, the 4th Infantry Division served with distinction and the stories of these Vietnam veterans redefine the word, "sacrifice."

In all 450 stories, a most complelling fact overcomes the reader: This is real history as only the men who fought the battles can describe and authenticate. No textbook, no narrative history can tell it like the men of the 4th Infantry Division. This book is destined to become a source for scholarly research and a book for the shear reading pleasure by those who love soldiers and their "War Stories."

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War Stories by Babcock a must read.......2001-08-08

War Stories by Babcock is a wonderful book for a travelor to own and read. The individual vignettes are both historically informative as well as entertaining. It is an easy book to get out and read when time permits and then put away...the hundreds of stories make it very convenient to stop and start reading. I believe this book is a "must read" for Americans who wish to know about the life and times of Americas combat soldiers as told by them. I plan on using this book as a gift to friends and family because of its historical depiction of Americas fighting forces.

War Stories-Utah Beach to Pleiku by Robert O. Babcock.......2001-08-06

War Stories-Utah Beach to Pleiku is a perfect book for the traveling person to read...you can pick it up and read as many fascinating stories as time permits...put it away...and then resume whenever. The individual vignettes are both historically informative as well as most entertaining. I plan on purchasing several copies of this masterful work to give as Chrismas gifts to friends and family. This book is a real sleeper...and it needs to be discovered by reading Americans who care about significant historical relevance. The book is an interesting mix of interesting stories as seen through the eyes of Americas combat soldiers. Some stories are funny...some sad...and some allow all non-combatants a glimpse of the horror of war.

War stories from those who lived them.......2001-08-05

Here's a book that will truly define the day to day life of a soldier. Sometimes scary, sometimes funny, always showing the human side of our men in combat. As a grunt, artilleryman, a driver, a signal corp, or any other MOS, this book hits the truth,as told by those who actually did the combat and/or support. The illustrious history of The 4th Infantry Division speaks well for our fighting men from the beaches of Normandy till Viet Nam. All combat vets will appreciate the stories and everyone will get a very personnal glimpse of the inner warrior and what drives him. Who knows, you might find a story from someone you know or from someone from your area.In the 4th Infantry, Rambo might have been a cook!

Pride in America.......2001-07-01

This book touched my heart...the stories, the people. Bob Babcock has truly given this reader the opportunity to share not just the lives of brave soldiers, but the their faith, family and courage. I recommend this book to all...ages Jr. High through platinum years. I am ordering copies of this book to place in my local libraries in order to enable others to share these enriching stories. Thank you and God Bless you Mr. Babcock! MSgt Tami L. O'Neal, USAFR

Pride in America.......2001-06-30

This book touched my heart...the stories, the people. Bob Babcock has truly given this reader the opportunity to share not just the lives of brave soldiers, but the their faith, family and courage. I am a proud homeschool Mom for a Sr & Jr this year...my girls will reap much history and respect for our military men and women through reading this book. I recommend this book to all...ages Jr. High through platinum years. I am ordering copies of this book to place in my local libraries in order to enable others to share these enriching stories. Thank you and God Bless you Mr. Babcock!

Evolution of the United States Army Infantry Mortar Squad: The Argonne to Pleiku

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Evolution of the United States Army Infantry Mortar Squad: The Argonne to Pleiku
Virgil Ney
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Pleiku
J. D. Coleman
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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Pleiku the Dawn of Helicopter Warfare
J D Coleman
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Or, why Gorbachev had to happen, and had to `fail'.......2006-12-21

Robert Kaiser in this very readable book updates the saga of on of the great leaders of the 20th century by asking the question was Gorbachev causing the change, or simply surfing the swell of popular sentiment and a crashing party state and its economy?

Kaiser starts with a review of the personality and leadership of Andropov, because Kaiser sees the rise of Andropov as being the crucial enabling sequence of events that ultimately brought Gorbachev to power. Kaiser's review of Andropov is crisp, functional and clean, not the usual "Kremlinologist" review of the supposed workings of the inner circles of Party leadership. Andropov's personal honesty and low tolerance level for dishonest dealings by the state, the party, and the security organs, had a profound influence on Gorbachev. Where Andropov perhaps intuited that `people power' could come to Russia and make a difference, Gorbachev was to refine that thinking, and try to harness it for his personal aspirations to save the Soviet Union. In the end, though, the people and the Party simply could not be reconciled, no matter how clever the conjurer.

Kaiser then continues the "background as illuminator" treatment of the subject by taking a close look at the interaction of the Brezhnev regime's interactions with Europe and the Western world. Kaiser postulates that the signing of the Helsinki Accords was a seminal development in the turn of events that Gorbachev was to ride while trying to provoke and control all at the same time.

One of Kaiser's central themes is that as events began to accelerate, and then generate their won second and third generation effects, Gorbachev had to shift faster and faster, with the result being that between the beginning of his tenure, when his pronouncements were carefully chosen and well thought through, the second half of his tenure saw him flying by the seat of his pants, with neither time to carefully think through his comments nor properly staff them in advance. Thus his very public persona began to generate its own confusion and chaos, rather than constancy and calm. Kaiser does a very good job of documenting this disintegration over the course, and final demise, of Gorbachev. The best quote of the book that sums up the entire challenge to Gorbachev "It was almost a circus trick. He wanted to jump from the driver's seat of one cart (the Party) to the driver's seat of another cart (his new democratic state) while both careened along at full speed. And both were pulled by the same horse-Russia."

The telling of history was always a key indicator of internal struggles, and the passage on page 187 is telling. "Gorbachev and his colleagues were not just struggling with the horros of Soviet history; they were putting at risk the very myths that propped up the very foundations of the Soviet regime. There goal was to be more truthful about the past without being so truthful that their words might undermine the Party's claim to power." At the same time, Kaiser notes that the Soviet schooling system was so broken--over half the schools in the USSR did not have central heating, sewage or running water--so it is doubtful if anyone was actually paying attention to the debate, much less studying it.

There is another superb passage on page 306 that details the effects of Gorbachev's simultaneous loss of power and control, even while his influence and importance outside the USSR continued to grow. The more Gorbachev tried to stimulate the economy by loosening things up, the worse it got, and the more everything else spun out of control. All the way up to the end, Gorbachev was smarter and quicker than his competitors for power--but he, too, grew weary of the constant exertions to right a sinking ship against the tides and winds of change. Kaiser's book does a very good job of detailing the entire exciting, and exhausting, ride through the final years of Soviet history.

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Since the 1970s, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), by virtue of its regulatory impact, has been a frequent subject of policy analysis. In this comprehensive history and critique of the ESA, Brian Czech and Paul R. Krausman incorporate the new model of policy design theory to frame a larger discussion about conservation biology and American democracy.

Czech and Krausman provide a historical background of endangered species policy that integrates natural history, socioeconomic trends, political movements, and professional developments. Outlining the controversies surrounding the ESA, they find a connection between challenges to species conservation and challenges to democracy. After an assessment of ESA analyses that have been performed from traditional perspectives, they engage policy design theory to review the structural logic of the ESA, analyzing each clause of the legislation for its application of the fundamental elements of democracy. To address the technical legitimacy of ESA, they propose two new genetic considerations--functional genome size and molecular clock speed--to supplement phylogenetic distinctiveness as criteria with which to prioritize species for conservation. Next, they systematically describe the socioeconomic context of ESA by assessing and classifying the causes of species endangerment.

A hybrid of policy analysis and ecological assessment, The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of natural resource policy and law, conservation biology, political science, wildlife ecology, and environmental history, and to professionals at agencies involved in wildlife conservation.

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An end-member perspective on environmental policy.......2007-04-02

I bought this slim, solidly-produced paperback because of its subject - one of the most important U.S. environmental laws, and authoritative subtitle: "History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy". The preface by senior author, Czech, lets us know that this book started life as his PhD dissertation at the University of Arizona in 1997: "The Endangered Species Act, American Democracy, and an Omnibus Role for Public Policy". Coauthor Paul Krausman, a senior professor at the University of Arizona School of Natural Resources, was his major advisor.

A policy dissertation on such a complex and controversial law (300 or more pages long) would have surely been impossible had Czech not already been an experienced conservation biologist and manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Arizona - when he got intrigued with wildlife policy.

Czech mentions that "Paul and I decided to convert my dissertation into something more reader friendly". I suggest that while Czech and Krausman are clearly experts regarding this law and its subject area, the book is not likely to be considered user friendly by persons other than academic policy specialists. The authors write clearly and even colorfully at times. At other times they forget and drop in unexplained scientific or political science terminology(e.g. "haploid set of chromosomes"). Much of the book concerns policy design analysis. This can become especially abstruse when it launches into complex, social-science laden academese like the below example:

"Pluralism, policy sciences, public choice theory, and critical theory have produced analyses characterized by a lack of normative content, preoccupation with reductionist methods, illogical optimism in a free market, and little practical application, respectively."

As a policy researcher, myself, I was hoping that "History" would include information on how and by whom ESA was written, and something about debates that may have gone on during committee hearings. Unfortunately, though a brief summary of earlier laws, (generically dismissed as "toothless") is given, we learn little more about legislative history of ESA itself beyond the fact that the 1973 law was first sponsored by Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, passed by overwhelming margins by Congress, and signed by President Richard Nixon.

The authors have strong preservationist and political views. The treatment would have benefited from a leavening of pros and cons, or alternative opinion. But where other views or stakeholders are mentioned it is often only in dismissive terms, e.g. "By definition, a degenerative subset of wealthy contenders strategize and hide agendas when ESA stands in the way of profits"

The authors offer some 13 recommendations for change in the ESA law, all of which would apparently toughen the law and its penalties. In fact, the authors come right out and say that policymakers should replace incentives for economic growth by barriers to economic growth in society generally. They seem unaware that such attitudes can breed antagonism and hostility in those who aren't supported by Federal government or academic positions. This, in turn, may reduce cooperation and limit funding for enforcement - which they regard as too low. In the view of author Daniel Fiorino, heavy-handed policy approaches that limit innovation are now outdated. European models that emphasize cooperation have in many cases left the U.S. behind. I do value the treatment as an example of an end member perspective on wildlife policy.

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