A Nation of Veterans : : War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America / / Olivier Burtin.
A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political battle to obtain and then defend their advantag...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I Ascent
- Chapter 1 Reform and Reaction: Veterans’ Politics in the Interwar Years
- Chapter 2 Rebirth The Veterans’ Movement in World War II
- Chapter 3 Clash: Intergenerational Transition and the Postwar Housing Crisis
- Chapter 4 Generations United: The Fight over the First Hoover Commission
- PART II Eclipse
- Chapter 5 A House Divided: Anticommunism and Its Discontents
- Chapter 6 Consolidation and Backlash: The Korean War in the Shadow of World War II
- Chapter 7 Generations Apart: The Problem of Economic Security for Aging Veterans
- Epilogue. The Legacies of Martial Citizenship
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments