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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
NYU Press
2009, 2009
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| Summary: | 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 of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion (AL), Stephen R. Ortiz reveals that veterans actively organized in the years following the war to claim state benefits (such as pensions and bonuses), and strove to articulate a role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New Deal era. Bey |
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| Physical Description: | 262 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780814762561 0814762565 |