Failing Our Veterans : The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation /
Boulton, Mark
Failing Our Veterans : The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation / Mark Boulton. - 1 online resource
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Returning Vietnam veterans had every reason to expect that the government would take care of their readjustment needs in the same way it had done for veterans of both World War II and Korea. But the Vietnam generation soon discovered that their G.I. Bills fell well short of what many of them believed they had earned. Mark Boulton's groundbreaking study provides the first analysis of the legislative debates surrounding the education benefits offered under the Vietnam-era G.I. Bills. Specifically, the book explores why legislators from both ends of the political spectrum failed to provide Vietnam veterans the same generous compensation offered to veterans of previous wars. Failing Our Veterans should be essential reading to scholars of the Vietnam War, political history, or of social policy. Contemporary lawmakers should heed its historical lessons on how we ought to treat our returning veterans. Indeed, veterans wishing to fully understand their own homecoming experience will find great interest in the book's conclusions.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814724873 9780814760420
10.18574/nyu/9780814724873.001.0001 doi
Veterans--Education--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Veterans--Education--History.--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Economic conditions.--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--History.--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Social conditions.--United States
HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War.
UB357 / .B67 2016
371.223
Failing Our Veterans : The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation / Mark Boulton. - 1 online resource
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Returning Vietnam veterans had every reason to expect that the government would take care of their readjustment needs in the same way it had done for veterans of both World War II and Korea. But the Vietnam generation soon discovered that their G.I. Bills fell well short of what many of them believed they had earned. Mark Boulton's groundbreaking study provides the first analysis of the legislative debates surrounding the education benefits offered under the Vietnam-era G.I. Bills. Specifically, the book explores why legislators from both ends of the political spectrum failed to provide Vietnam veterans the same generous compensation offered to veterans of previous wars. Failing Our Veterans should be essential reading to scholars of the Vietnam War, political history, or of social policy. Contemporary lawmakers should heed its historical lessons on how we ought to treat our returning veterans. Indeed, veterans wishing to fully understand their own homecoming experience will find great interest in the book's conclusions.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814724873 9780814760420
10.18574/nyu/9780814724873.001.0001 doi
Veterans--Education--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Veterans--Education--History.--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Economic conditions.--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--History.--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Social conditions.--United States
HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War.
UB357 / .B67 2016
371.223