A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America Burtin Olivier
A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America Burtin Olivier A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world's most generous system of…
Specifikacia A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America Burtin Olivier
A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America Burtin Olivier
A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world's most generous system of veterans' benefits. They succeeded in securing their privileged status in public policy only by rallying behind powerful interest groups, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, and the American Legion. 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 advantages against criticism from liberals and conservatives alike.
In the process, veterans formed one of the most powerful movements of the early and mid-twentieth century, though one that we still know comparatively little about.In examining how the veterans' movement inscribed martial citizenship onto American law, politics, and culture, A Nation of Veterans
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