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Fritz Fischer, Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000), xiii + 237 pp., $15.95 (paper).
Fritz Fischer's Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s examines the early era of the Peace Corps, and, in particular, the experiences of volunteers in the agency. Utilizing the experiences of Peace Corps volunteers to tell a broader story, Fisher writes, "[fln looking at the Peace Corps experience, we can gain valuable insights into American culture and its interactions with the world in the late twentieth century" (1).
The book begins with an insightful analysis of the events and social environment that led to the genesis of the Peace Corps, while the rest of the book focuses on the experiences of the early volunteers. The strength of Fischer's book lies not in a historical narrative, but in how he...