02936nam 2200589Ia 450 991046319080332120200520144314.01-283-93977-00-8157-2381-4(CKB)2670000000330406(EBL)1108063(OCoLC)824363016(SSID)ssj0000803691(PQKBManifestationID)11438461(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803691(PQKBWorkID)10810635(PQKB)10137225(MiAaPQ)EBC1108063(MdBmJHUP)muse32282(Au-PeEL)EBL1108063(CaPaEBR)ebr10643263(CaONFJC)MIL425227(EXLCZ)99267000000033040620121116d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe politics and civics of national service[electronic resource] lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Vista, and AmeriCorps /Melissa BassWashington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press[2013]1 online resource (599 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8157-2380-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface. 1. Introduction: National service as public policy for democracy -- 2. Citizenship and the elements of policy design -- Part I. The civilian conservation corps. 3. The CCC's roots and relationships -- 4. The CCC's purpose and government's role -- 5. The CCC's tools, rules, and targets -- II. Volunteers in service to America. 6. VISTA's roots and relationships -- 7. VISTA's purpose and government's role -- 8. VISTA's tools, rules, and targets -- III. AmeriCorps. 9. AmeriCorps's roots and relationships -- 10. AmeriCorps's purpose and government's role -- 11. AmeriCorps's policy tools, rules, and targets -- IV. Conclusion. 12. Making sense of the past and its lessons for the future -- Notes -- Index.In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet despite its success, the CCC was short lived.National serviceUnited StatesVoluntarismUnited StatesElectronic books.National serviceVoluntarism361.6361.973Bass Melissa946573MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463190803321The politics and civics of national service2138497UNINA