These books are suggested for supplementary reading if you have access to them or wish to purchase them from the publishers. They are not approved nor officially supplied by the War Department. They have been selected because they give additional information and represent different points of view.

Better Government Personnel. By Commission of Inquiry on Public Service Personnel. Published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., 330 West 42d St., New York 18, N. Y. (1935). $2.00.

Trained Personnel for Public Service. By Katharine A. Frederic. Published by National League of Women Voters, 726 Jackson Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. (1935). 25 cents.

The Business Value of the Merit System. By National Civil Service Reform League, 67 West 44th St., New York 18, N. Y. (1941). Free on request.

Civil Service in Modern Government: A Study of the Merit System. By National Civil Service Reform League (1936). 25 cents.

Your Federal Civil Service. By James C. O’Brien and Philip P. Marenberg. Published by Funk and Wagnalls Co., 354 Fourth Ave., New York 17, N. Y. (1940). $2.50.

Opportunities in Government Employment. By Lawrence J. O’Rourke. Published by Garden City Publishing Co., Garden City, New York 20, N. Y. (1940). $1.00.

History of the Federal Civil Service, 1789 to the Present. By United States Civil Service Commission. Published by United States Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. (1941). 25 cents.

From EM 38: Who Should Choose a Civil Service Career? (1946)