Stanley Meisler, an early evaluator at the Peace Corps who has had a long and distinguished career in journalism, before and after his Peace Corps years, has signed a contract with Beacon Press to write a history of the first 50 years of the agency. This is a major development in the telling the story of the Peace Corps, a history that will be written by a talented writer who knows the agency from the inside and from the early days, and a journalist who has observed PCVs at work around the world.
Meisler was with the Los Angeles Times as a foreign and diplomatic correspondent for thirty yers, living and working in Nairobi, Mexico City, Madrid, Toronto, Paris, Barcelona, the United Nations and Washington. He still contributes articles to the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He is the author of the biography Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War and United Nations: The First Fifty Years. Today he writes a News Commentary for his website, www.stanleymeisler.com.
The publisher of this ground breaking history of the Peace Corps is Beacon Press. This Boston publishing company has published many classics, including James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensinal Man, and Jean Baker Miller's Toward a New Psychology of Women.
The Peace Corps will be fifty years old as an agency in 2011.
What's left to write, John? It seems to me you've already done it!
Posted by: Neil Boyer | March 19, 2008 at 10:17 PM
What's left to write, John? It seems to me you've already done it!
Posted by: Neil Boyer | March 19, 2008 at 10:18 PM
There are 50 years, Neil. I haven't gotten out of the first six months!
Posted by: John Coyne | March 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM
I'd love to be involved, graphically, in this book. Can you send me Stanley Meisler's email address?
Posted by: Rowland Scherman | June 07, 2009 at 03:03 PM