Anfinson wrote Practical Heritage Management: Preserving a Tangible Past “partly for a selfish reason”—the need for an accessible, comprehensive text without an archaeological focus (xv). Anfinson states the organizational setup of the book is intended to fit into a fifteen-week teaching semester, and the target audience is advanced college and university students taking a course in American heritage management (xvii-xviii). The book is a perhaps best suited for those who expect to gain applicable regulatory knowledge in heritage management prior to searching for careers in historic preservation and/or archeology.

The book is divided into fourteen chapters. Chapters end with review questions to test reader comprehension and supplemental reading recommendations. Additionally, the author includes sidebars for each chapter which contain anecdotal notes with personal rhetorical queries added to prompt further discussion. Chapters that cover the backgrounds of legal frameworks and the histories of their implementation follow logical, chronological explanations. From the...

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