The Peace Corps Experience : Challenge and Change, 1969-1976 /

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For more than 35 years, the Peace Corps has pursued John F. Kennedy's vision of helping people of the Third World build a better life. Yet with the exception of a few celebrations of its early years, little effort has been made to document that organization's history. Now a former deputy d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Searles, P. David, 1933-
Corporate Author: Gift in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps (Library of Congress)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1997]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Peace Corps (U.S.)
Peace Corps (U.S.) > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:For more than 35 years, the Peace Corps has pursued John F. Kennedy's vision of helping people of the Third World build a better life. Yet with the exception of a few celebrations of its early years, little effort has been made to document that organization's history. Now a former deputy director of the Peace Corps offers a first-hand look at life in the agency -- both in the field and at headquarters -- and a radical reinterpretation of its history during the Nixon and Ford administrations. By the end of the 1960s, the Peace Corps was in disarray. Debate raged over its effectiveness, and many.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780813156774

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