Veterans' policies, veterans' politics
Subtitle: new perspectives on veterans in the modern United States
By: edited by Stephen R. Ortiz ; foreword by Suzanne Mettler
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780813042077
Subjects: Politics and government; Services for; Veterans; Employment
Description: An examination of the political issues and causes of veterans of the U.S. military.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health care. 1. Army sanctuary for tubercular veterans: veterans' health care before the Veterans Bureau; title: Carol R. Byerly; title: 2. the invention, stumbling, and reinvention of the modern U.S. veterans health care system, 1918-1924 / Rosemary A. Stevens; title: Part II: Disablity. 3. Architecture of injury: disabled veterans, federal policy, and the built environment in the early twentieth century / John M. Kinder; title: 4. "An emblem of distinction": the politics of disability entitlement, 1940-1950 / Audra Jennings; title: 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; title: 6. The long journey home: African American World War I veterans and veteran policies / Jennifer Keene; title: 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; title: 8. "Do something for the soldier boys": Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the contours of liberalism / Nancy Beck Young; title: 9. "A veteran does not have to stay a veteran forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill /; title: Melinda Pash; title: 10. A price on patriotism: the politics and unintended consequences of the 1966 G.I. Bill / Mark Boulton; title: Part V: Contemporary veterans' politics. 11. Conventional and distinctive policy preferences of early-twenty-first-century veterans /; title: Jeremy M. Teigen; title: 12. Exploring the effects of combat exposure on American civic life / Christopher S. Parker.