The Edge of Paradise
America in Micronesia
by P.F. Kluge

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• ISBN: 9780824815677 (082481567X)
• Genres: travel
• Language: english
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Format: paperback, 256 pages
• Release date: December 3, 2005
• Author: P.F. Kluge

About The Book

In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise — or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He composed speeches for their leaders. He wrote a stirring manifesto that became the Preamble to the Constitution of Micronesia. He began a friendship with a man who would one day be president of Palau. And then, a generation later, P. F. Kluge went back… The result is a book the New Yorker called “remarkably effective,” the Economist deemed “terrific”; a book Smithsonian Magazine found to be “written from the heart.” The Edge of Paradise shows the impact and ironies of America’s presence in an undeveloped part of the world, how perhaps there’s no way “a big place can touch a little one without harming it.”

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