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Michael E. O’Hanlon Has Counseled ‘Resolute Restraint’ in an Age of Peace. But Has That Age Come to an End?
The Art of War in an Age of Peace U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint By Michael E. O’Hanlon Yale University Press Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum Published...
How People Experience Idealism, Why It Dies, and Why That Matters
The Death of Idealism Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps By Meghan Elizabeth Kallman Columbia University Press Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum You might surmise from its...
As a Child, She Fled Nazi Germany with Her Family. Two Decades After the War, She Was a Chemist Teaching at a University in Lagos with the Peace Corps.
My Years in the Early Peace Corps Nigeria, 1964–1965 (Volume 1) Ethiopia, 1965–1966 (Volume 2) By Sonja Krause Goodwin Hamilton Books Reviewed by Steven Boyd Saum Sonja Krause...
A Collective Memoir of Peace Corps Libya
101 Arabian Tales How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya Edited by Randolph W. Hobler Lulu Books Reviewed by D.W. Jefferson Randy Hobler has taken on the...
Applying Lessons Learned from Decades in Development
How to Improve the World Quickly By Chris Roesel Peace Corps Writers After Chris Roesel served as a Volunteer in Guatemala 1973–75, “how to help those most in need...
More Nonfiction from the Book Locker
Under the Influence Putting Peer Pressure to Work By Robert Frank Princeton University Press Reviewed by NPCA Staff Robert H. Frank (Nepal 1966–68) is a pioneer and champion...
Stories of the Human Heart
Founded in 2003, StoryCorps shares stories to deepen connections between people and create a just, compassionate world. Sandra Clark is the first woman of color to lead the nonprofit as...
Good News from Maryland: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Will Now Get In-State Tuition
It’s a change long overdue. And advocacy from NPCA and dozens of returned Volunteers ensured support for bipartisan legislation signed into law in April. By Jonathan Pearson Far...
National Service: An Interim Report on the Commission Hearings
By Mark Gearan The bipartisan, 11-member National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service was created by Congress to find ways to increase participation in military, national, and public...
Earth Day at Fifty: How it began—and what you can do now
History and ideas from RPCVs for Environmental Action By Kate Schachter It began as a teach-in on the environment. After years of attempting to influence Congress to take action for...
