@article{308078,
      note = {First published in 2004},
      author = {Dickson, Paul. and Allen, Thomas B.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/308078},
      title = {The Bonus Army : an American epic /},
      publisher = {Walker & Co.,},
      abstract = {In the Depression summer of 1932, some 45,000 veterans of  World War I descended on Washington to demand the bonus  promised them eight years earlier for their wartime  service. They lived in shantytowns, white and black  together, protested and rallied for their cause. Roy  Wilkins saw the model for racial integration here; J. Edgar  Hoover built his reputation against the radicals. President  Hoover, Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, and others  feared the protesters would turn violent after the Senate  defeated the "bonus bill" that the House had passed. On  July 28, tanks rolled as troops evicted the marchers.  Newspapers and newsreels showed graphic images of American  soldiers driving out their former comrades in arms.  Democratic candidate Franklin Roosevelt said to an adviser,  "This will elect me," though bonus armies would plague him  as well. The march inspired Congress to pass the G. I. Bill  of Rights in 1944.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {308078},
      pages = {370 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2006},
}