A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods With Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers

Suzanne Goldsmith, a young Harvard-educated reporter, signed on for a year of service with City Year, the widely praised, Boston-based community service program frequently endorsed by President Clinton as a model for the nation. A City Year is the story of that year-an honest and gritty account of the triumphs and setbacks faced by an idealistic and experimental social program in its infancy.