This book provides an easily readable summary of the work completed in the field of
organizational communication by Phillip K. Tompkins, professor emeritus at Purdue
University. After receiving his PhD in organizational communication from Purdue in
1962, Tompkins was a consultant to NASA working under the legendary Wernher von
Braun during the development of the Saturn V (the “moon rocket”). Based on that
experience, he published two books on his time at NASA and his involvement in the
space program. More recently, he has worked as a volunteer at the St. Francis Center,
a homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado, resulting in a book about homelessness in the
United States