Executive Order 10924: Peace Corps

Bibliography

Articles

• Colmen, Joseph G. “A Discovery of Commitment.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 365 (May 1966): 12–20.
• Shriver, Sargent. “Two Years in the Peace Corps.” Foreign Affairs (July 1963): 694–707.

Books

• Ashabranner, Brent. A Moment in History: The First Ten Years of the Peace Corps. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
• Fischer, Fritz. Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
• Hoffman, Elizabeth Cobbs. All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1998.
• Hoopes, Roy. The Peace Corps Experience. New York: Clarkson N Potter, 1968.
• Lederer, William, and Eugene Burdick. The Ugly American. New York: W. W. Norton, 1958.
• Reeves, T. Zane. The Politics of the Peace Corps and Vista. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1988.
• Schwarz, Karen. What You Can Do for Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps. New York: William Morrow, 1991.
• Shriver, Sargent. Point of the Lance. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

Web Sites

• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Web site. http://www.jfklibrary.org/. Accessed on February 27, 2008.
• “The Peace Corps Is Born, 1960–1962.” Peace Corps Online Web site. http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/4098.html. Accessed on March 10, 2008.
• Peace Corps Web site. http://www.peacecorps.gov/. Accessed on February 27, 2008.
• “Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA.” The American Presidency Project Web site. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25928. Accessed on March 10, 2008.
• Wiggins, Warren W. “A Towering Task.” National Peace Corps Association Web site. http://www.rpcv.org/AToweringTaskbyWarrenWigginsFeb1961.pdf. Accessed on March 10, 2008.