When the world calls : the inside story of the Peace Corps and its first fifty years / Stanley Meisler.
Meisler, Stanley.
2011
HC60.5 .M45 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
When the world calls : the inside story of the Peace Corps and its first fifty years / Stanley Meisler.
Author
Meisler, Stanley.
ISBN
9780807050491 (alk. paper)
0807050490 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Boston : Beacon Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HC60.5 .M45 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
361.6
Summary
Presents a history of the Peace Corp and exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the struggles volunteers faced abroad.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-252) and index.
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The challenge from JFK
Sarge's Peace Corps
The pioneer volunteers and the postcard
The battle of Britain
Friday, November 22, 1963
U. S. troops invade the Dominican Republic
Johnny Hood
The specter of Vietnam
The wrath of Richard Nixon
The fall of the Lion of Judah
The militant Sam Brown
Mayhem and illness
The rich lady in her first job for pay
200,000 stories
A new name and a new world
The expansive mood of the Clinton years
The quiet Bush years
Diplomatic troubles
Obama and the future
Does the Peace Corps do any good?

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