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The GI Bill boys : a memoir / Stella Suberman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suberman, Stella.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--1933-1945.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- Economic conditions.
- Depressions--1929--United States.
- Depressions.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- United States. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
- Veterans--Education--United States.
- Veterans.
- Veterans--Education.
- Suberman, Stella.
- Suberman, Jack.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Suberman, an author of two other books on World War II, presents a memoir of the experiences of her family with the original 1944 GI Bill. She details the events that spawned it and follows her southern family and her future husband's northern one during the Great Depression, the Bonus March of World War I veterans, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt/New Deal years, the rise of the Nazi Party and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the postwar period when veterans returned home to a poor economy. She details her husband's experiences with the GI Bill, as well as other men and their wives as they went back to school, opened a business, learned a trade, or became a professional. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Moving into the Depression 1
- Chapter 2 The Jew Baby 7
- Chapter 3 New York, New York, a Wonderful Town? 29
- Chapter 4 World War I Redux 41
- Chapter 5 Roosevelt Is in, and So Are the New Deal and Fireside Chats 47
- Chapter 6 So Long, Sidewalks of New York; Hello, Moon over Miami 53
- Chapter 7 The New York Depression Kid 79
- Chapter 8 1939 and 1940 99
- Chapter 9 World War II 129
- Chapter 10 Reassignment 139
- Chapter 11 After the War 157
- Chapter 12 The GI Bill 177
- Chapter 13 Drinks at the Professor's 219
- Chapter 14 Mission Accomplished 247.
- ISBN:
- 9781572338555
- 1572338555
- OCLC:
- 756377664
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