03145nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10629495 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120517s2012 fluacd sb 001 0 eng d 2012018869 9780813042077 (alk. paper) 9780813042541 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)820123123 n-us--- UB357 .V438 2012eb 362.86/5610973 23 Veterans' policies, veterans' politics [electronic resource] : new perspectives on veterans in the modern United States / edited by Stephen R. Ortiz ; foreword by Suzanne Mettler. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. xiv, 318 p. : ill., port. Includes bibliographical references and index. Health care. 1. Army sanctuary for tubercular veterans: veterans' health care before the Veterans Bureau -- Carol R. Byerly -- 2. the invention, stumbling, and reinvention of the modern U.S. veterans health care system, 1918-1924 / Rosemary A. Stevens -- Part II: Disablity. 3. Architecture of injury: disabled veterans, federal policy, and the built environment in the early twentieth century / John M. Kinder -- 4. "An emblem of distinction": the politics of disability entitlement, 1940-1950 / Audra Jennings -- 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 -- 6. The long journey home: African American World War I veterans and veteran policies / Jennifer Keene -- 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 -- 8. "Do something for the soldier boys": Congress, the G.I. Bill of Rights, and the contours of liberalism / Nancy Beck Young -- 9. "A veteran does not have to stay a veteran forever": Congress and the Korean G.I. Bill / -- Melinda Pash -- 10. A price on patriotism: the politics and unintended consequences of the 1966 G.I. Bill / Mark Boulton -- Part V: Contemporary veterans' politics. 11. Conventional and distinctive policy preferences of early-twenty-first-century veterans / -- Jeremy M. Teigen -- 12. Exploring the effects of combat exposure on American civic life / Christopher S. Parker. An examination of the political issues and causes of veterans of the U.S. military. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Veterans United States. Veterans Services for United States. Veterans Employment United States. United States Politics and government. Electronic books. local Ortiz, Stephen R. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10629495 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 72769 72769