Category: War
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Sargent Shriver’s Memoir
Shriver’s memoir offers lessons on the price of overconfidence in brute power abroad vs pragmatic idealism at home.
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Profile: David Greenlee
The Peace Corps volunteers would work with the campesinos. The USAID people would help the central government deliver. This would stimulate development and social integration. It was a sweet theory.
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We Interrupt the Regularly-Scheduled Program…
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The start of war against Iran by Israel and the United States requires recognition of others’ service and misery before resuming regularly-scheduled programming on Peace.
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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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Hostage Crisis III and the Ghosts of Camelot
Metrinko was cleaned up and brought to meet Tehran’s Friday prayer leader Ali Khamenei. In the room were a camera crew and the SFIL spokesperson, Niloufar Ebtekar
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Profile: Michael Metrinko
Afghan Finance Minister Ghani steeped Metrinko and Peace Corps Director Vasquez in nostalgia from his years learning English and basketball with PCVs in Kabul
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Profile: John Limbert
Even after 5 months as a hostage John Limbert retained his identity as a diplomat, engaging Iran’s future Supreme Leader in language and custom Khamenei couldn’t ignore
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Iran Hostage Crisis I
Peace Corps Nepal in the 1960s could feel slow. Adapting to the boredom turned out to be good preparation for enduring 444 days of tedium as a hostage in Iran
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A Spy of the Egyptian Spies
Not your typical Peace Corps-to-Foreign Service path, this rendering of an ambassador’s tale twists amid my own fascination with the era’s social influences.
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Profile: Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr.
Sketch profiling Ambassador Franklin Pierce “Pancho” Huddle, Jr. from a forthcoming nonfiction boook of profiles that explore Peace Corps roots in American diplomacy.
Ben East Books 