Peace Corps: The Toughest Job They'll Ever Mismanage

By Bill Curlott

In Peace Corps: Reality, Dr. Bill Curlott tells of a retired business educator who decides to volunteer for the Peace Corps in Ukraine. Dr. Curlott grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s, lived in Atlantic City at a time when "gangsters frolicked," and served three years in the U.S. Marine Corps during Korea. After scaling academic heights, he was still" a blue-collar guy with white-collar labels." As a retired professor at age sixty-two, he sought a new challenge, a desire to use his expertise in Business Education to help the struggling country of Ukraine, where the Marxist theories of determinism were still being taught. What difficulties would he face in trying to present a free-enterprise curriculum? Here is a thoughtful and informative autographical novel with much to say about education and miseducation in the Peace Corps.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0533145880
• ISBN13: 9780533145881
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Vantage Pr
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Peace Corps The Toughest Job They'll Ever Mismanage

The author states early in the docunovel that the characters are fictitious and the events are actual. This protects the innocent as well as the guilty. This also eliminates too many protagonists and makes the book easier to read. This also takes the book out of the autobiographical catagory. The statement about the Jewish people was followed by the statement that the protagonist always admired Jewish people because of their respect for education. The reference to gay bashing is inacurate because one of his best friends during the confusion and accusations was gay and was one of the four to whom the book was dedicated. Also the terms Gays and Lesbians are used for one of the organizations within the Peace Corps. Maybe there was misunderstanding of terminology and situations because of lack of knowledge of the Peace Corps in Ukraine as well as reviewing docunovels. The author states that the main point of the novel is that the Peace Corps should be organized as an international university and administered by people with that kind of background. Two secondary premises are there should be more relevant and effective training and there should be a memorial for the volunteers who gave their lives in service to their country. When a person is dealing with a country where there is no freedom of the press, hence there is no freedom of the press in the Peace Corps and countless other circumstances that have to be experienced to believe, there will be a better understanding. The document section of the novel will be a better explanation of some of the circumstances that took place as seen by the Ukrainian people and what the administration of the Peace Corps did or did not do.