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Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2020-02-12
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0486837246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive research, this highly praised history recounts the 1932 march on Washington by 15,000 World War I veterans and the protest's role in the transformation of American society. "Recommended." — Library Journal.
Author: Julia Emily Johnsen
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New Jersey. Soldiers' Bonus Commission
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen R. Ortiz
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2009-12-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0814762263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Roger Daniels
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1971-10-28
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe status of the veteran and the nature of the American political system are examined as an historian studies the 1932 march on Washington. The marchers were often called the Bonus Army.
Author: Jerome Tuccille
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018-04-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1640120688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Who Murdered the Vets?” writer Ernest Hemingway demanded in an impassioned article about the deaths of hundreds of former soldiers. Their fate came as part of the larger and often overlooked story of veterans of the Great War and their deplorable treatment by the government they once served. Three years earlier, under orders from President Herbert Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. military through the streets of the nation’s capital against an encampment of veterans and their families. The vets were suffering the ravages of the Great Depression and seeking an early payment of promised war bonuses. Tanks, troops, and cavalry burned down tents and leveled campsites in a savage and lethal effort to disperse the protesters, resulting in the murder of several demonstrators. The administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt subsequently shipped the vets to distant work camps in the Florida Keys, where they were housed in flimsy tent cities that fell prey to a hurricane of which the authorities had been given ample warning. It was in reaction to the hundreds of bodies left in the storm’s wake that Hemingway penned his provocative words. The War Against the Vets is the first book about the Bonus Army to describe in detail the political battles that threatened to tear the country apart, as well as the scandalous treatment of the World War I vets.
Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1426843747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Jeff Ritter offered Ashley Churchill shelter, the struggling single mom longed to lean on his broad shoulders. And though she accepted a job as his housekeeper, Ashley was determined to make her own happiness, without the heartbreak of loving a man. No matter how tempting that man was.... It was Jeff's nature to protect, but his heart was off-limits--even to the woman and child he came home to each night. For life had made Jeff a hardened soldier, not a man to love. And despite the hope he saw shining in Ashley's eyes, Jeff didn't dare dream she could truly be his....
Author: Jack Douglas
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Published for the Veterans publication society by Workers library publishers."--p. [iv].
Author: The Princeton Review
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0525569243
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