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Soldiers to Citizens - The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Paperback)
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Soldiers to Citizens - The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Paperback)
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The G.I. Bill fueled not only the development of the middle class:
it also revitalized American democracy. Americans who came of age
during World War II joined fraternal groups and neighborhood and
community organizations and took part in politics at rates that
made the postwar era the twentieth century's civic "golden age."
Drawing on extensive interviews and surveys with hundreds of
members of the "greatest generation," Suzanne Mettler finds that by
treating veterans as first-class citizens and in granting advanced
education, the Bill inspired them to become the active participants
thanks to whom memberships in civic organizations soared and levels
of political activity peaked. Mettler probes how this landmark law
produced such a civic renaissance. Most fundamentally, she
discovers, it communicated to veterans that government was for and
about people like them, and they responded in turn. In our current
age of rising inequality and declining civic engagement, Soldiers
to Citizens offers critical lessons about how public programs can
make a difference.
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