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Explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions, which it had done since the Revolutionary War. This title includes a story that culminates in the postwar establishment of the Veteran's Administration.

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"This thoughtful, provocative, deeply researched, and beautifully written study shows how the US government took responsibility for soldiers who were physically injured and maimed in World War I, and why there was support for government intervention. Linker's answer, superbly dissected and presented, is that there was a brew of intersecting motives: from American ideals of masculinity, modernity, and militarism to work and self-reliance." (Rosemary A. Stevens, Weill Cornell Medical College)"

Wars Waste Rehabilitation in World War I America

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A Hardback by Beth Linker

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/06/2011
    ISBN13: 9780226482538, 978-0226482538
    ISBN10: 0226482537
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions, which it had done since the Revolutionary War. This title includes a story that culminates in the postwar establishment of the Veteran's Administration.

    Trade Review
    "This thoughtful, provocative, deeply researched, and beautifully written study shows how the US government took responsibility for soldiers who were physically injured and maimed in World War I, and why there was support for government intervention. Linker's answer, superbly dissected and presented, is that there was a brew of intersecting motives: from American ideals of masculinity, modernity, and militarism to work and self-reliance." (Rosemary A. Stevens, Weill Cornell Medical College)"

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