All you need is love : the Peace Corps and the spirit of the 1960s / / Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
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| Autore: |
Cobbs Hoffman Elizabeth
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| Titolo: |
All you need is love : the Peace Corps and the spirit of the 1960s / / Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2000, c1998 |
| Edizione: | 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 306 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 361.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-296) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | All you need is love |
| ISBN: | 9780674029606 |
| 0674029607 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910964429003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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