Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream - Hardcover

Humes, Edward

 
9780151007103: Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151007101 ISBN 13: 9780151007103
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers as much as it looked forward to peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, the American Legion, William Randolph Hearst, and others began crafting the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. It would be the single most transformative bill of the twentieth century.

Spun as the G.I. Bill of Rights, this program for vets included home loans, health care, educational funds, and career counseling. The effects were immediate and enduring—the suburbs, the middle class, America’s ever-increasing number of college graduates, the lunar landing—all are tied to the G.I. Bill. The Greatest Generation would not exist without it: Norman Mailer, Bob Dole, John F. Kennedy, Paul Newman, Jimmy Carter, Clint Eastwood, and many others benefited from its provisions. Here are the stories of some of these men and women, how their lives changed because of the bill and how this country changed because of them.

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EDWARD HUMES is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has contributed to Talk, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles magazine, and others. Humes’s numerous books include School of Dreams and the bestselling Mississippi Mud, Mean Justice, and No Matter How Loud I Shout. A graduate of Hampshire College, he lives in Southern California. 



 



 

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151007101
ISBN 13 
9780151007103
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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