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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era Stephen R. Ortiz
Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era
Stephen R. Ortiz
Mining the papers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion (AL), this book 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.
268 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780814762134 |
| Publishers | New York University Press |
| Pages | 268 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 229 mm · 521 g |
| Language | English |