Volume XVII
Number 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Look Back: History’s Lessons for Current Events
Before Fake News: How Federal Agencies
Wrestled with Responding to Rumors in World War II.……………………………………....1 
Mordecai Lee
Analysis and Commentary: Use of Narrative in Public 
Administration
Renaming the Derogatory and Offensive Toponyms of the American Landscape:
The Role of Public Administration...……………………………………………..........................22 
Derek R. Slagle
Unmasking the Carnivalesque and Donning the Guerrilla Suit: 
Outing the Gendered Public Organization ………………….…………………………………….37 
Serena Hoermann
Title IX Policy and the Construction of Survivor Narratives…………………………….54 
Hannah Liebreich
“Every day it eats at you:” Empathy in Municipal Cemetery Management....…67 
Staci M. Zavattaro
“No Damn Cat, and No Damn Cradle”:
Cat’s Cradle, Science, and the Pitfalls of Evidence-Based Drug Policy………….....83 
Ryan J. Lofaro
Societal Dissolution and the 
Failure of Government in Dystopian Climate Fiction………………...…………..………...99 
David A. Rochefort
Post-Truth, Mal-Trinity, and Government-in-Context………………...……………………116 
Ricardo Schmukler
Book Review
Time, Novelty, and Public Administration: Review of 
“Outlandish Perspectives on Public Administration” by Charles T. Goodsell....128 
Reviewed by Arthur J. Sementelli
