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Carte Peace Corps Experience P. David Searles

Peace Corps Experience

Challenge and Change, 1969-1976

Autor: P. David Searles
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: The University Press of Kentucky
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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A former deputy director of the Peace Corps offers both a first-hand look at life in the agency - in...

Informații despre carte

Autor
P. David Searles
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
1997
Pagini
272
EAN
9780813120096
ISBN
9780813120096
Enbook ID
06362932
Editura
The University Press of Kentucky
Greutate
634
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 21

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A former deputy director of the Peace Corps offers both a first-hand look at life in the agency - in the field and at headquarters - and a radical reinterpretation of its history during the Nixon and Ford administrations. By the end of the 1960s, the Peace Corps was in disarray. Debate raged over its effectiveness, and many new volunteers embraced the anti-establishment behavior of the day's youth. When President Nixon appointed Joseph Blatchford as director in 1969, some insiders felt the agency's days were numbered - especially when Blatchford set about re-evaluating the Peace Corps' mission and initiated a program called New Directions to reorient its work. Many observers simply lump Blatchford's efforts with the failures and faults of the Nixon administration. David Searles, however, contends that the new director's initiatives revitalized the Peace Corps and made it more relevant. He relates the history of these policies and their implementation in the field, drawing on his experience as country director for the Peace Corps in the Philippines. He shows how, despite constant carping from veterans of the early Peace Corps and much furor at headquarters, New Directions re-energized the agency and renewed and reaffirmed the Peace Corps' mission.

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