Author:
Kinder, John M. (John Matthew), 1975- author.
Imprint:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Descriptionviii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction -- The industrialization of injury: Thomas H. Graham -- "To bind up the nation's wounds": how the disabled veteran became a problem: Arthur Guy Empey -- "The horror for which we are waiting": anxieties of injury in World War I -- The aftermath of battle: Elsie Ferguson in "Hero Land" -- "Thinking ahead of the crippled years": carrying on in an age of normalcy -- Sunday at the hippodrome -- "The cripple ceases to be": the rehabilitation movement in Great War America -- Mobilizing injury -- The sweet bill -- "For the living dead I work and pray": veterans' groups and the benefits of buddyhood -- Forget-me-not day -- "For the memory of warriors wracked with pain": disabled doughboys and American memory: James M. Kirwin -- "What is wrong with this picture?": disabled veterans in interwar peace culture -- Old battles, new wars: Harold Russell -- "The shining plate of prestige": disabled veterans in the American century: Tammy Duckworth -- Epilogue: Toward a new veteranology.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
