All You Need Is Love The Peace Corps and the Spirit of The 1960s

Name: All You Need Is Love The Peace Corps and the Spirit of The 1960s
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ISBN: 9780674003804

ISBN-10: 0674003802

ISBN-13: 9780674003804

Edition: 1998

Authors: Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

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The nation was powerful and prosperous, the president was vigorous and young, and a confident generation was gathering its forces to test the New Frontier. The cold war was well under way, but if you could just, as the song went, "put a little love in your heart," then "the world would be a better place." The Peace Corps, conceived in the can-do spirit of the sixties, embodied America's long pursuit of moral leadership on a global scale. 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. More than…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/2/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.87" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Prologue



Love and Youth in a Brave New World



Shriver Hits the Ground Running



Peace Corps Cousins



The Cold War versus Decolonization



The Hero's Adventure



Ghana



Slippery Slopes



Under Attack



The Peace Corps Dilemma



Balancing Ideals and Self-Interest



Peace Corps Data


Notes


Index