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" Veterans' policies, veterans' politics : "
edited by Stephen R. Ortiz ; foreword by Suzanne Mettler
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BL
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586261
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b415480
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Veterans' policies, veterans' politics : : new perspectives on veterans in the modern United States /\ edited by Stephen R. Ortiz ; foreword by Suzanne Mettler
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xiv, 318 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780813042077
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: 0813042070
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Health care. 1. Army sanctuary for tubercular veterans: veterans' health care before the Veterans Bureau -- Carol R. Byerly -- 2. the invention, stumbling, and reinvention of the modern U.S. veterans health care system, 1918-1924 / Rosemary A. Stevens -- Part II: Disablity. 3. Architecture of injury: disabled veterans, federal policy, and the built environment in the early twentieth century / John M. Kinder -- 4. "An emblem of distinction": the politics of disability entitlement, 1940-1950 / Audra Jennings -- 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 -- 6. The long journey home: African American World War I veterans and veteran policies / Jennifer Keene -- 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 -- 8. "Do something for the soldier boys": Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the contours of liberalism / Nancy Beck Young -- 9. "A veteran does not have to stay a veteran forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill / -- Melinda Pash -- 10. A price on patriotism: the politics and unintended consequences of the 1966 G.I. Bill / Mark Boulton -- Part V: Contemporary veterans' politics. 11. Conventional and distinctive policy preferences of early-twenty-first-century veterans / -- Jeremy M. Teigen -- 12. Exploring the effects of combat exposure on American civic life / Christopher S. Parker
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An examination of the political issues and causes of veterans of the U.S. military
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Veterans-- United States
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Veterans-- Services for-- United States
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Veterans-- Employment-- United States
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United States, Politics and government
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362.86/5610973
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UB357.V438 2012
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Ortiz, Stephen R
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Mettler, Suzanne
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