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Author Ortiz, Stephen R

Title Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill : how veteran politics shaped the New Deal era / Stephen R. Ortiz
Published New York : New York University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages :) : illustrations
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
Summary This volume chronicles how veteran politics influenced U.S. federal policy during the 1930s and 1940s, illuminating how veterans and veteran organizations pushed the federal government to place their interests front and center on the national agenda. The author presents a history of World War I veterans and their efforts to organize into a political interest group. He examines the benefits that the veterans secured, including state pensions and bonuses and the affect they had on the New Deal era. He demonstrates that veterans participated in an active political life, following the publicized Bonus March as they staged smaller marches, lobbied politicians, and threatened to undermine President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's (FDR) prospects for reelection in 1936. The author demonstrates how federal policy -- and, by extension, American political culture -- underwent a fundamental shift to embrace the needs of veterans by furnishing them with health care benefits, pensions, job training programs, education, and housing
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SUBJECT Seberíni, Ondrej gnd
Subject Bonus Expeditionary Forces.
SUBJECT Bonus Expeditionary Forces fast
Subject New Deal, 1933-1939.
Protest movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century
Veterans -- Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Veterans -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Veterans -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- United States
Veterans -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
New Deal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Politics and government
Protest movements
Veterans
Veterans -- Economic conditions
Veterans -- Education
Veterans -- Government policy
Veterans -- Political activity
Interessenpolitik
Kriegsteilnehmer
New Deal
Politik
Reintegration
Soldatenverband
Veteran
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140464
United States -- Politics and government -- 1919-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140460
Subject United States
Washington (D.C.)
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009023997
ISBN 9780814762561
0814762565