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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Redmon, Coates. Come as you are. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986 (OCoLC)654828372 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Coates Redmon |
| ISBN: | 0151194351 9780151194353 |
| OCLC Number: | 13456861 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xi, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The general('s) idea -- Pass the torch, please -- Come as you are -- "In, up & out" -- With sarge: on land, on sea, and in the air -- Charlie Peters: the burr under the saddle -- Mating season -- Shriver's reps: men of their times -- Hello, third world -- When Johnny comes marching home. |
| Responsibility: | Coates Redmon. |
Abstract:
Based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews, this book about the Kennedy years and the making of the Peace Corps reconstructs the story of General James Gavin, the originator of the Peace Corps idea, and Sargent Shriver, who made Gavin's idea into a reality.
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