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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
AmeriCorps*VISTA.
AmeriCorps (U.S.)
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Electronic books.
Voluntarism > United States.
National service > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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