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How the May 1980 Democratic Uprising in South Korea Was Met with Brute Force: A First-Person Account
Witnessing Gwangju By Paul Courtright Hollym Publishers Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum Paul Courtright arrived in South Korea in 1979 to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer, based...
On the Plain of Snakes
In the mountains near Oaxaca, tales of El Norte: among weavers and migrant workers who left family and home for work across the border — and returned. Conversations from a...
An Audience with the King
For 30 years Ambika Joshee worked for the Peace Corps in Nepal. His memoir, The Life of a Nepali Village Boy, is a candid account of a country being transformed...
For “Hardball” Host Chris Matthews, a Life in Politics Began with the Nixon-Kennedy Battle in 1960
This Country My Life in Politics and History By Chris Matthews Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum “I suppose everyone has a moment that wins them...
In ‘Last Best Hope,’ George Packer Seeks to Find a Way for Americans to Talk with Each Other Again
Last Best Hope America in Crisis and Renewal By George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Reviewed by Marnie Mueller George Packer’s Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and...
For Years, Sarah Chayes Told U.S. Leaders in Afghanistan Truths They Did Not Want to Hear About Corruption. Now She Looks at What Is Corroding Democracy at Home.
On Corruption in America And What Is at Stake By Sarah Chayes Penguin Random House Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum Back in 2015, when Sarah Chayes published Thieves...
Understanding a New Meaning of Home
Tales of Togo A Young Woman’s Search for Home in West Africa By Meredith Pike-Baky Peace Corps Writers Reviewed by Bill Preston This candid and heartfelt memoir chronicles...
Peace Corps Volunteers Have Begun Returning Overseas
After a send-off from First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the White House, Volunteers headed for Zambia and the Dominican Republic in March. Here are the 24 countries they will...
A Tenth Anniversary Edition of Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers
Voices from the Peace Corps Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers By Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson University Press of Kentucky Review by Steven Boyd Saum A decade ago,...
Some 2,000 Peace Corps Volunteers Served in Korea. They Have Also Helped Shape the Study of That Nation in the United States.
Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States Edited by Seung-kyung Kim and Michael Robinson Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington Reviewed by...
