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When the world calls : the inside story of the Peace Corps and its first fifty years / Stanley Meisler.
Lippincott Library HC60.5 .M45 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meisler, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace Corps (U.S.).
- Economic assistance, American--Developing countries.
- Economic assistance, American.
- Developing countries.
- United States--Foreign relations--Developing countries.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Presents a history of the Peace Corp and exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the struggles volunteers faced abroad.
- Contents:
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807050491
- 0807050490
- OCLC:
- 635461062
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