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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill : How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era / Stephen R. Ortiz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ortiz, Stephen R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bonus Expeditionary Forces.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Protest movements--Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century.
- Protest movements.
- Veterans--Education--United States--History--20th century.
- Veterans.
- Veterans--United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Veterans--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Veterans--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1919-1933.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London, [England] : New York University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Veterans' policy and veteran organizations, 1917-1929
- Rethinking the Bonus March
- The "New Deal" for veterans
- The Bonus re-emerges
- "The Pro-Bonus Party"
- Veteran politics and the New Deal's political triumph of 1936.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814762561
- 0814762565
- OCLC:
- 779828224
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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