The Moral Equivalent of War?

This is a thoughtful comparative study of national youth service programs. The book is rich with information and lessons for the course of national service in the United States. -Bill Bradley U. S. Senator At a time when new attention is being focused on national service, it is important to base policy development on the best existing knowledge. Eberly and Sharraden have performed a valuable service in collecting experience on non-military service in nine nations; it will be an essential document for developing our own ideas of what we should do here in the United States. - Donald Kennedy, President Stanford University I used to think that the G. I. Bill for veterans of World War II was the greatest bill ever passed in the Congress. Now I think that right there with it is the bill creating the Peace Corps. This book retells the story of the Peace Corps and other programs of nonmilitary service in countries such as Nigeria, China, West Germany, Israel, and Mexico. Read it with great inspiration. - Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh President Emeritus University of Notre Dame Eberly and Sherraden's thoughtful examination of non-military service in other nations sheds important new light on the current debate in the United States, revealing both possibilities and potential pitfalls to guide the development of a uniquely American approach to national service in the 1990s and beyond. - Marian Wright Edelman, President Children's Defense Fund