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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era

ISBN: 9780814762134 ;ISBN: 0814762131 ;EISBN: 9780814762561 ;EISBN: 0814762565 ;DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762561 ;OCLC: 779828224

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Title:
Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era
Author: Ortiz, Stephen
Subjects: 20th century ; Activists ; Bonus Expeditionary Forces ; Economic conditions ; HISTORY ; Interwar years ; Military ; New Deal ; New Deal, 1933-1939 ; Political movements ; Protest movements ; Protest movements-Washington (D.C.)-History-20th century ; U.S.A ; United States-Politics and government-1918-1933 ; United States-Politics and government-1933-1945 ; Veterans ; Veterans-Education-United States-History-20th century ; Veterans-Government policy-United States-History-20th century ; Veterans-Political activity-United States-History-20th century ; Veterans-United States-Economic conditions-20th century ; Washington ; World War I ; World War One ; World War, 1914-1918-Veterans-United States
Description: 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. Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill is unique in its treatment of World War I veterans as significant political actors during the interwar period. Ortiz's study reinterprets the political origins of the "Second" New Deal and Roosevelt's electoral triumph of 1936, adding depth not only to our understanding of these events and the political climate surrounding them, but to common perceptions of veterans and their organizations. In describing veteran politics and the competitive dynamics between the AL and the VFW, Ortiz details the rise of organized veterans as a powerful interest group in modern American politics.
Publisher: New York: NYU Press
Creation Date: 2010
Format: 264
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780814762134
ISBN: 0814762131
EISBN: 9780814762561
EISBN: 0814762565
DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762561
OCLC: 779828224
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era

ISBN: 9780814762134 ;ISBN: 0814762131 ;EISBN: 9780814762561 ;EISBN: 0814762565 ;DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814762561 ;OCLC: 779828224

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