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100 1 Boulton, Mark,|d1973-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n2014006295|eauthor.
245 10 Failing our veterans :|bthe G.I. Bill and the Vietnam
Generation /|cMark Boulton.
264 1 New York :|bNew York University Press,|c[2014]
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504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "A Chance
for Learning"; 1. For the Wounded and the Worthy:
Veterans' Benefits from the Early Republic to the Vietnam
Era; 2. The Clash of the Texans: The Making of the 1966
Cold War G.I. Bill; 3. A Peacetime Bill for the Warrior:
Shortchanging the Vietnam Vets; 4. Mr. President (Have
Pity on the Fighting Man): Nixon's Right Turn for America,
Wrong Result for the Veterans; 5. On the Streets and in
the Schools: The Veterans Come Home; 6. Denouement: Ford's
War on Inflation and Teague's Last Stand; Conclusion: "A
Chance for Learning" Missed; Notes.
520 The original 1944 G.I. Bill holds a special place in the
American imagination. In popular mythology, it stands as
the capstone of the Greatest Generation narrative of World
War II, a fitting reward for the nation's heroes. Given
the almost universal acclaim afforded the bill, future
generations of warriors might well have expected to
receive similar remuneration for their sacrifice. But when
soldiers of the Vietnam conflict shed their fatigues and
returned home to civilian life, they found that their G.I.
Bills fell well short of what many of them believed they
had earned. In this first legisl.
588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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650 0 Vietnam War, 1961-1975|xVeterans|zUnited States|0https://
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650 0 Veterans|xEducation|zUnited States.|0https://id.loc.gov/
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aBoulton, Mark.|tFailing Our Veterans :
The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation.|dNew York : NYU
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