TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bass,Melissa
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The politics and civics of national service: lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Vista, and AmeriCorps 
SN  - 9780815723813
AV  - HD4870.U6 B37 2013
U1  - 361.6 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - AmeriCorps*VISTA
KW  - AmeriCorps (U.S.)
KW  - Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Voluntarism
KW  - United States
KW  - National service
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-294) and index; Preface. 1. Introduction: National service as public policy for democracy -- 2. Citizenship and the elements of policy design -- Part I. The civilian conservation corps. 3. The CCC's roots and relationships -- 4. The CCC's purpose and government's role -- 5. The CCC's tools, rules, and targets -- II. Volunteers in service to America. 6. VISTA's roots and relationships -- 7. VISTA's purpose and government's role -- 8. VISTA's tools, rules, and targets -- III. AmeriCorps. 9. AmeriCorps's roots and relationships -- 10. AmeriCorps's purpose and government's role -- 11. AmeriCorps's policy tools, rules, and targets -- IV. Conclusion. 12. Making sense of the past and its lessons for the future -- Notes -- Index
N2  - In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet despite its success, the CCC was short lived
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815723813/
ER  -