Can I read A moment in history: the first ten years of the Peace Corps on EtoBox?

A moment in history: the first ten years of the Peace Corps by [by] Brent Ashabranner is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A moment in history: the first ten years of the Peace Corps about?

viii, 392 pages 22 cm Former deputy director surveys development of the organization from early beginnings in 1960 through the 1970's The first decade of the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps is born: 1960-62. Shriver and the beginning ; "The towering task" ; Executive order 10924 ; A separate Peace Corps ; The beginning overseas -- The year of the volunteer: 1962. Arrival and departure ; The Peace Corps volunteer as teacher ; A view from America ; Volunteers outside classrooms -- Growing pains: 1963-66. The lost leader ; The rise of the BA generalist ; Size and the generalist ; Community development: bottomless pit for BA generalists ; Volunteers as teachers: What else do you do? ; India: The Peace Corps world in one country ; Volunteer life: another view ; A note on volunteer health ; The Peace Corps gets a new leader -- A step toward maturity: 1967-69. Wiggins resigns ; BA generalist for specialist jobs ; The emergence of training ; The Peace Corps' color problem ; A smaller Peace Corps ; The shadow of Vietnam -- Mr. Nixon's Peace Corps: 1969-70 -- The Peace Corps in a world at war. The Peace corps and global politics -- The Cold War -- Nationalism and Xenophobia -- The returned volu

Author

[by] Brent Ashabranner

Publisher

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

Published

1971

Language

EN

Subjects

Sociology, Economics, Business