"It has the hand-hewn feel of the old "Whole Earth Catalog" and the
weight of a phone book. . . . I find it to be perfect bedtime
reading, and my dreams are filled with the care of corn crops and
methods of collecting water after falling from an airplane. "Public
Works" gives me fantasies of starting over with a few acres of
farmland, a hammer, and a saw, and provides me with a vision of
unelectrified reliance." --Paul Ford, "The Morning News" (Web-based
periodical), November 26, 2002
Praise for the first edition:
"How we have survived this long without Public Works I don't know.
The concept is brilliant and simple. Szykitka has assembled 1,000
pages of sheer Information, almost all of it in the public domain,
almost all of it available in booklet form from various government
agencies or other public services. You and I are lazy and feckless,
and if we are troubled by mildew we don't get around to writing the
Department of Agriculture for guidance. (Or if we do, the mildew
has either vanished or triumphed by the time the booklet arrives.)
Szykitka, however, is a persistent fellow with an unbridled lust
for collecting basic knowledge. If we had lived in a rural
community a century ago, much of the knowledge gathered here would
have been in our bones."
--"Harper's "Magazine, October 28, 1974
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