Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties
(Part of the Critical American Studies Series)
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To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was "the toughest job you'll ever love." In the United States' popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy's presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency's representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081669222X
ISBN13:9780816692224
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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