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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill : How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era.

The period between World Wars I and II was a time of turbulent political change, with suffragists, labor radicals, demagogues, and other voices clamoring to be heard. One group of activists that has yet to be closely examined by historians is World War I veterans. Mining the papers of the Veterans o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ortiz, Stephen R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Veterans' Policy and Veteran Organizations, 1917-1929; 2 Rethinking the Bonus March; 3 The "New Deal" for Veterans; 4 The Bonus Re-emerges; 5 "The Pro-Bonus Party"; 6 Veteran Politics and the New Deal's Political Triumph of 1936; Conclusion: GI Bill Legacies; Postscript: A GI Bill for the Twenty-first Century?; Notes; Index; About the Author.