Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics : New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States /
The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing area of interest, but most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry. This is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the American veteran experience. The editor has compiled some of...
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University Press of Florida,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Health Care. Army Sanctuary for Tubercular Veterans : Veterans' Health Care before the Veterans Bureau ; The Invention, Stumbling, and Reinvention of the Modern U.S. Veterans Health Care System, 1918-1924
- Disability. Architecture of Injury : Disabled Veterans, Federal Policy, and the Built Environment in the Early Twentieth Century ; "An Emblem of Distinction" : The Politics of Disability Entitlement, 1940-1950
- The Politics of Race and Labor. "Put Fighting Blood in Your Business" : The U.S. War Department and the Reemployment of World War I Soldiers ; The Long Journey Home : African American World War I Veterans and Veterans' Policies
- Bonuses and G.I. Bills. Rethinking the Bonus March : Federal Bonus Policy, Veteran Organizations, and the Origins of a Protest Movement ; "Do Something for the Soldier Boys" : Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the Contours of Liberalism ; "A Veteran Does Not Have to Stay a Veteran Forever" : Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill ; A Price on Patriotism : The Politics and Unintended Consequences of the 1966 G.I. Bill
- Contemporary Veterans' Politics. Conventional and Distinctive Policy Preferences of Early-Twenty- First-Century Veterans ; Exploring the Effects of Combat Exposure on American Civic Life.
