Contributor
Ortiz, Stephen R.
Imprint:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
Descriptionxiv, 318 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Army sanctuary for tubercular veterans: veterans' health care before the Veterans Bureau / Carol R. Byerly -- The invention, stumbling, and reinvention of the modern U.S. veterans health care system, 1918-1924 / Rosemary A. Stevens -- Architecture of injury: disabled veterans, federal policy, and the built environment in the early twentieth century / John M. Kinder -- "An emblem of distinction": the politics of disability entitlement, 1940-1950 / Audra Jennings -- "Put fighting blood in your business": The U.S. War Department and the reemployment of World War I soldiers / Nancy Gentile Ford -- The long journey home: African American World War I veterans and veterans' policies / Jennifer Keene -- Rethinking the bonus march: federal bonus policy, veteran organizations, and the origins of a protest movement / Stephen R. Ortiz -- "Do something for the soldier boys": Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the contours of liberalism / Nancy Beck Young -- "A veteran does not have to stay a veteran forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill / Melinda Pash -- A price on patriotism: the politics and unintended consequences of the 1966 G.I. Bill / Mark Boulton -- Conventional and distinctive policy preferences of early-twenty-first-century veterans / Jeremy M. Teigen -- Exploring the effects of combat exposure on American civic life / Christopher S. Parker.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:An examination of the political issues and causes of veterans of the U.S. military.
