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Oral histories

By: Roger Landrum, Lynda Edwards, Robert Marshall, and George McDaniel

Date: 1991

Source: Schwarz, Karen, ed. What You Can Do for Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1991, 37, 42, 76–77, 117–118, 120–121, 123.

About the Authors: Roger Landrum, Lynda Edwards, Robert Marshall, and George McDaniel entered the Peace Corps with similar expectations and left with different perspectives on their experience. All were profoundly moved by the cross-cultural impact of their tours, yet they looked back with varying degrees of their initial enthusiasm and idealism intact. For some, the differences between the Peace Corps's stated goals and the reality of their assignments left them somewhat cynical about the experience. Others emerged with a renewed commitment to community and international development.

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