Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s

by Fritz Fischer and Fritz Fischer

Book Overview

When John F. Kennedy urged Americans in 1961 to ask "what you can do for your country," young idealists flocked to join the newly formed Peace Corps. Designed to help the nations of the so-called... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560988894
• ISBN13: 9781560988892
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Awesome.

Mr. Fischer has done us all a favor with this book. His analysis, combining history and real life experience, rings true. More than that, the book evokes an earlier, more idealistic America, one where, in JFK's words, one "asked not what your country could do for you, but what you can do for your country." Read this. It could change your life.

Thoughtful and evocative of another era.

This book brought back untold memories to me. I volunteered in Guatemala from 1967-69 and Mr. Fischer has reminded me of the waves of human suffering I witnessed. In one brief shining,moment we sought to stem the flow of crimes against humanity. This was a time long before profit margins and balance sheets ruled the day, when success was measured by the lives saved and babies fed. I thank Mr. Fischer for taking me back to a simpler time, long before day trading and front page presidential fellatio. Thank you, Fritz Fischer, for rocking my world!!