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The wages of war : when America's soldiers came home : from Valley Forge to Vietnam /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.,
2016.
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| Colección: | Forbidden bookshelf series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Introduction; Introduction; Prologue; Part One: After the Revolution; 1 Lambs and Bees or Tigers and Wolves; 2 Half Pay, Full Taxes, and Engines of Vice; 3 Officer Princes and the Art of Living Happily Ever After; 4 Daniel Shays: From True Patriot to Counterfeit Public Enemy; 5 A Little Rebellion Now and Then; Part Two: The War of 1812 and the Mexican War; 6 Like Sweet Poison on the Taste; 7 Just Debts and Common Sense; 8 St. Patrick Goes to Mexico; Part Three: The Civil War
- 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and the Concussion of Young Men10 The Day That Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Voted in Indiana; 11 Bounties and Blacks; 12 Palace of Pensions; Part Four: The War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection; 13 Embalmed Beef, Bad Water, Typhoid, and Five-Dollar Coffins at Montauk Point; 14 Of Mutilations, Massacres, and McKinley; Part Five: After the First World War; 15 When Italians Lacked the "Conveniences for Thinking" and Black Mothers Traveled Second Class
- 16 67,000 Quarts of Whiskey, Enough Floor Wax to Cover South Dakota, and "to hell with the Central Office"17 Mellon, du Pont, and the Chamber of Commerce: Fighting Is Its Own Reward; 18 The Great Depression and the Ghost of Daniel Shays; Part Six: After the Second World War; 19 Sweet Wine at Last; 20 Forgotten Women, Failed Men; Part Seven: The Korean War; 21 The Scapegoats; 22 The Scapegoaters; Part Eight: The Vietnam War and the Agent Orange Affair; 23 The Red Carpet Leads to Rejection; 24 When Not to Know Means Not to Pay; 25 The VA and Dow versus the Christians
- 26 Avoid Politicians and Lawyers and Get a Good PR Man27 The White House Suppresses a Report; Epilogue; Notes; Index; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Copyright Page