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Format: Online-Ressource (318 p)

ISBN: 9780674003804

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Love and Youth in a Brave New World -- 2. Shriver Hits the Ground Running -- 3. Peace Corps Cousins -- 4. The Cold War versus Decolonization -- 5. The Hero's Adventure -- 6. Ghana -- 7. Slippery Slopes -- 8. Under Attack -- 9. The Peace Corps Dilemma -- 10. Balancing Ideals and Self-Interest -- Appendix Peace Corps Data -- Notes -- Index.

Note: Description based upon print version of record

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674029606

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674003804

Additional Edition: Print version All You Need Is Love : The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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Format: 1 online resource (viii, 306 p. ) , ill.

Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.

ISBN: 0-674-02960-7

Content: Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it is a fascinating look at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the twentieth century.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Frontmatter -- , Acknowledgments -- , Contents -- , Prologue -- , 1 Love and Youth in a Brave New World -- , 2 Shriver Hits the Ground Running -- , 3 Peace Corps Cousins -- , 4 The Cold War versus Decolonization -- , 5 The Hero's Adventure -- , 6 Ghana -- , 7 Slippery Slopes -- , 8 Under Attack -- , 9 The Peace Corps Dilemma -- , 10 Balancing Ideals and Self-Interest -- , Appendix: Peace Corps Data -- , Notes -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-01635-1

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-00380-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674029606