All You Need Is Love / / Elizabeth COBBS HOFFMAN.
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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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