Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill : How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era / Stephen R. Ortiz.
2009
UB357 .O78 2016
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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill : How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era / Stephen R. Ortiz.
Author
Ortiz, Stephen R., author.
ISBN
9780814762561
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814762134.001.0001 doi
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UB357 .O78 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.86561097309043
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Veterans' Policy and Veteran Organizations, 1917-1929
2. Rethinking the Bonus March
3. The "New Deal" for Veterans
4. The Bonus Re-emerges
5. "The Pro-Bonus Party"
6. Veteran Politics and the New Deal's olitical Triumph of 1936
Conclusion: GI Bill Legacies
Postscript: A GI Bill for the Twenty-first Century?
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Veterans' Policy and Veteran Organizations, 1917-1929
2. Rethinking the Bonus March
3. The "New Deal" for Veterans
4. The Bonus Re-emerges
5. "The Pro-Bonus Party"
6. Veteran Politics and the New Deal's olitical Triumph of 1936
Conclusion: GI Bill Legacies
Postscript: A GI Bill for the Twenty-first Century?
Notes
Index
About the Author