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The Politics and Civics of National Service : Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps /

In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the n...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bass, Melissa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Preface. 1. Introduction: National service as public policy for democracy -- 2. Citizenship and the elements of policy design -- Part I. The civilian conservation corps. 3. The CCC's roots and relationships -- 4. The CCC's purpose and government's role -- 5. The CCC's tools, rules, and targets -- II. Volunteers in service to America. 6. VISTA's roots and relationships -- 7. VISTA's purpose and government's role -- 8. VISTA's tools, rules, and targets -- III. AmeriCorps. 9. AmeriCorps's roots and relationships -- 10. AmeriCorps's purpose and government's role -- 11. AmeriCorps's policy tools, rules, and targets -- IV. Conclusion. 12. Making sense of the past and its lessons for the future -- Notes -- Index. 
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