Veterans' policies, veterans' politics new perspectives on veterans in the modern United States /
An examination of the political issues and causes of veterans of the U.S. military.
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Health care. 1. Army sanctuary for tubercular veterans: veterans' health care before the Veterans Bureau
- Carol R. Byerly
- 2. the invention, stumbling, and reinvention of the modern U.S. veterans health care system, 1918-1924 / Rosemary A. Stevens
- Part II: Disablity. 3. Architecture of injury: disabled veterans, federal policy, and the built environment in the early twentieth century / John M. Kinder
- 4. "An emblem of distinction": the politics of disability entitlement, 1940-1950 / Audra Jennings
- Part III: The politics of race and labor. 5. "Put fighting blood in your business": The U.S. War Department and the reemployment of World War I soldiers / Nancy Gentile Ford
- 6. The long journey home: African American World War I veterans and veteran policies / Jennifer Keene
- Part IV: Bonuses and G.I. bills. 7. Rethinking the bonus march: federal bonus policy, veteran organizations, and the origins of a protest movement / Stephen R. Ortiz
- 8. "Do something for the soldier boys": Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the contours of liberalism / Nancy Beck Young
- 9. "A veteran does not have to stay a veteran forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill /
- Melinda Pash
- 10. A price on patriotism: the politics and unintended consequences of the 1966 G.I. Bill / Mark Boulton
- Part V: Contemporary veterans' politics. 11. Conventional and distinctive policy preferences of early-twenty-first-century veterans /
- Jeremy M. Teigen
- 12. Exploring the effects of combat exposure on American civic life / Christopher S. Parker.