Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation

by Mark Boulton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814724876
• ISBN13: 9780814724873
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"