Category: Nonfiction
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Profiles in Service Now on Kindle
Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy is now available in seconds on your Kindle.
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Book Review: Revenge of the Seawolf
Mystery and adventure will keep readers turning the pages, and Theroux adds rich layers of historic detail, authenticity, and curiosity to the narrative.
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Speaking of Writing
They welcomed me for a chat about about the Peace Corps, life in the Foreign Service, and my recent book, Profiles in Service.
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Launch Day
The writer is greedy, demanding, insistent. Each word must lead the reader to the end of a sentence, a paragraph, a page.
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Three Koreas
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The harsh environment, the boys pushed hard by striving parents, the high expectations Koreans had for themselves and Peace Corps volunteers all made for an often grinding experience
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Interview: On Writing Profiles
My writing routine: Anytime. Anywhere. Rumpled and rocking on trains or cramped on airplanes. You can’t be precious about where, when, and how you write.
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From Oral History to Historical Narrative
I’m pulling back the curtain on process, sharing an excerpt of David Greenlee’s ADST oral history alongside the final narrative form from Profiles in Service.
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Choosing Local Leadership
From Peace Corps service, Ambassador Hill knew how fraught the process of picking someone else’s leadership could be. He’d seen it fail time and again
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Profile: Christopher Hill
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He would be alone, learning a new culture much as he had as a Peace Corps volunteer in Buea, Cameroon, navigating ambiguity by instinct.
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Celebrating Peace Corps
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Sixty-five years ago today, March 1, 1961, President Kennedy signed the Executive Order that created a Peace Corps within the Department of State.
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