Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States
“Provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to the study of the important intersection of veteran policies and political arguments that have helped to define the modern American state.”—Robert Saxe, author of “Settling Down”: World War II Veterans’ Challenge to the Postwar Consensus


“An outstanding collection of essays that will engage anyone interested in the veteran experience in modern America. It should be read by political leaders and the general public who want to develop better ways to reintegrate veterans of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq back into American society.”—G. Kurt Piehler, author of Remembering the War the American Way

The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing topic of interest, but to date most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry.
         
Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics is the first multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the American veteran experience. Stephen Ortiz has compiled some of the best work on the formation and impact of veterans’ policies, the politics of veterans’ issues, and veterans’ political engagement over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States.
         
By examining the U.S. government’s treatment of veterans vis-à-vis such topics as health care, disability, race, the GI Bill, and combat exposure, the contributors reveal how debates regarding veterans’ policies inevitably turn into larger political battles over citizenship and the role of the federal government.
         
With the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq now the longest military operations in U.S. history and the numbers of veterans returning from overseas deployment higher than they’ve been in a generation, this is a timely and necessary book.

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Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States
“Provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to the study of the important intersection of veteran policies and political arguments that have helped to define the modern American state.”—Robert Saxe, author of “Settling Down”: World War II Veterans’ Challenge to the Postwar Consensus


“An outstanding collection of essays that will engage anyone interested in the veteran experience in modern America. It should be read by political leaders and the general public who want to develop better ways to reintegrate veterans of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq back into American society.”—G. Kurt Piehler, author of Remembering the War the American Way

The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing topic of interest, but to date most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry.
         
Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics is the first multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the American veteran experience. Stephen Ortiz has compiled some of the best work on the formation and impact of veterans’ policies, the politics of veterans’ issues, and veterans’ political engagement over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States.
         
By examining the U.S. government’s treatment of veterans vis-à-vis such topics as health care, disability, race, the GI Bill, and combat exposure, the contributors reveal how debates regarding veterans’ policies inevitably turn into larger political battles over citizenship and the role of the federal government.
         
With the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq now the longest military operations in U.S. history and the numbers of veterans returning from overseas deployment higher than they’ve been in a generation, this is a timely and necessary book.

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Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States

Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States

by Stephen R. Ortiz (Editor)
Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States

Veterans' Policies, Veterans' Politics: New Perspectives on Veterans in the Modern United States

by Stephen R. Ortiz (Editor)

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“Provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to the study of the important intersection of veteran policies and political arguments that have helped to define the modern American state.”—Robert Saxe, author of “Settling Down”: World War II Veterans’ Challenge to the Postwar Consensus


“An outstanding collection of essays that will engage anyone interested in the veteran experience in modern America. It should be read by political leaders and the general public who want to develop better ways to reintegrate veterans of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq back into American society.”—G. Kurt Piehler, author of Remembering the War the American Way

The study of military veterans and politics has been a growing topic of interest, but to date most research on the topic has remained isolated in specific, unconnected fields of inquiry.
         
Veterans’ Policies, Veterans’ Politics is the first multidisciplinary, comprehensive examination of the American veteran experience. Stephen Ortiz has compiled some of the best work on the formation and impact of veterans’ policies, the politics of veterans’ issues, and veterans’ political engagement over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States.
         
By examining the U.S. government’s treatment of veterans vis-à-vis such topics as health care, disability, race, the GI Bill, and combat exposure, the contributors reveal how debates regarding veterans’ policies inevitably turn into larger political battles over citizenship and the role of the federal government.
         
With the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq now the longest military operations in U.S. history and the numbers of veterans returning from overseas deployment higher than they’ve been in a generation, this is a timely and necessary book.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813061436
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 05/15/2015
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 334
Product dimensions: 6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Stephen R. Ortiz, associate professor of history at Binghamton University, is the author of Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

List of Tables x

Foreword xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction Stephen R. Ortiz 1

Part I Health Care

1 Army Sanctuary for Tubercular Veterans: Veterans' Health Care before the Veterans Bureau Carol R. Byerly 11

2 The Invention, Stumbling, and Reinvention of the Modern U.S. Veterans Health Care System, 1918-1924 Rosemary A. Stevens 38

Part II Disability

3 Architecture of Injury: Disabled Veterans, Federal Policy, and the Built Environment in the Early Twentieth Century John M. Kinder 65

4 "An Emblem of Distinction": The Politics of Disability Entitlement, 1940-1950 Audra Jennings 94

Part III The Politics of Race and Labor

5 "Put Fighting Blood in Your Business": The U.S. War Department and the Reemployment of World War I Soldiers Nancy Gentile Ford 119

6 The Long Journey Home: African American World War I Veterans and Veterans' Policies Jennifer D. Keene 146

Part IV Bonuses and G.I. Bills

7 Rethinking the Bonus March: Federal Bonus Policy, Veteran Organizations, and the Origins of a Protest Movement Stephen R. Ortiz 173

8 "Do Something for the Soldier Boys": Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the Contours of Liberalism Nancy Beck Young 199

9 "A Veteran Does Not Have to Stay a Veteran Forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill Melinda Pash 222

10 A Price on Patriotism: The Politics and Unintended Consequences of the 1966 G.I. Bill Mark Boulton 241

Part V Contemporary Veterans' Politics

11 Conventional and Distinctive Policy Preferences of Early-Twenty-First-Century Veterans Jeremy M. Teigen 263

12 Exploring the Effects of Combat Exposure on American Civic Life Christopher S. Parker 281

List of Contributors 301

Index 303

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