The GI Bill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The GI Bill write by Glenn Altschuler. This book was released on 2009-06-02. The GI Bill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G.I. Bill. In a brilliant addition to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, historians Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin offer a compelling and often surprising account of the G.I. Bill and its sweeping and decisive impact on American life. Formally known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, it was far from an obvious, straightforward piece of legislation, but resulted from tense political maneuvering and complex negotiations. As Altschuler and Blumin show, an unlikely coalition emerged to shape and pass the bill, bringing together both New Deal Democrats and conservatives who had vehemently opposed Roosevelt's social-welfare agenda. For the first time in American history returning soldiers were not only supported, but enabled to pursue success--a revolution in America's policy towards its veterans. Once enacted, the G.I. Bill had far-reaching consequences. By providing job training, unemployment compensation, housing loans, and tuition assistance, it allowed millions of Americans to fulfill long-held dreams of social mobility, reshaping the national landscape. The huge influx of veterans and federal money transformed the modern university and the surge in single home ownership vastly expanded America's suburbs. Perhaps most important, as Peter Drucker noted, the G.I. Bill "signaled the shift to the knowledge society." The authors highlight unusual or unexpected features of the law--its color blindness, the frankly sexist thinking behind it, and its consequent influence on race and gender relations. Not least important, Altschuler and Blumin illuminate its role in individual lives whose stories they weave into this thoughtful account. Written with insight and narrative verve by two leading historians, The G.I. Bill makes a major contribution to the scholarship of postwar America.
An Act to Provide Federal Government Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of Returning World War II Veterans
An Act to Provide Federal Government Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of Returning World War II Veterans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Act to Provide Federal Government Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of Returning World War II Veterans write by United States. Congress. House. This book was released on 1944. An Act to Provide Federal Government Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of Returning World War II Veterans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill
Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill write by Stephen R. Ortiz. This book was released on 2009-12-01. Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period between World Wars I and II was a time of turbulent political change, with suffragists, labor radicals, demagogues, and other voices clamoring to be heard. One group of activists that has yet to be closely examined by historians is World War I veterans. Mining the papers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the American Legion (AL), Stephen R. Ortiz reveals that veterans actively organized in the years following the war to claim state benefits (such as pensions and bonuses), and strove to articulate a role for themselves as a distinct political bloc during the New Deal era. Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill is unique in its treatment of World War I veterans as significant political actors during the interwar period. Ortiz’s study reinterprets the political origins of the "Second" New Deal and Roosevelt’s electoral triumph of 1936, adding depth not only to our understanding of these events and the political climate surrounding them, but to common perceptions of veterans and their organizations. In describing veteran politics and the competitive dynamics between the AL and the VFW, Ortiz details the rise of organized veterans as a powerful interest group in modern American politics.
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as Amended [1942].
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as Amended [1942]. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as Amended [1942]. write by United States. Selective Service System. This book was released on 1942. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as Amended [1942]. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The G.I. Bill write by Kathleen J. Frydl. This book was released on 2011-08-11. The G.I. Bill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in the first study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl's research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects.
