It seems to me that there are two major lessons to be learned from the complex of events we call the bonus march and that the nation has absorbed only one of them : it has learned how to anticipate the needs of veterans — but not how to ...
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Language: en
Pages: 370
Pages: 370
The status of the veteran and the nature of the American political system are illuminated as an historian uncovers the myths surrounding the 1932 march on Washington
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Originally published: New York: Walker & Co., c2004.
Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Reveals that veterans actively organized in the years following the war to claim state benefits and strove to articulate a role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New Deal era.
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
To his friends, Seymour Langer was one of the brightest kids to emerge from Chicago’s Depression-era Jewish West Side. To his family, he was a driven and dedicated physician, a devoted father and husband. But to his Adam, youngest son, Seymour was also an enigma: a somewhat distant figure to
Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
In June 1932, the Bonus Expeditionary Force, also known as the "Bonus Army", marched on Washington, DC, to advocate the passage of the "soldier's bonus" for service during World War 1. After Congress adjourned, bonus marchers remained in the city and became unruly. On July 28, 1932, two bonus marchers