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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
In her warm and witty new memoir, Stella Suberman charms readers with her personal perspective as she recalls the original 1940s GI Bill. As she writes of the bill and the epic events that spawned it, she manages, in her crisp way, to personalize and humanizes them in order to entertain and to educate. Although her story is in essence that of two Jewish families, it echoes the story of thousands of Americans of that period. Her narrative begins with her Southern family and her future husband's Northern one - she designates herself and her husband as "Depression kids"--As they struggle through the Great Depression. In her characteristically lively style, she recounts the major happenings of the era: the Bonus March of World War I veterans; the attack on Pearl Harbor; the Roosevelt/New Deal years; the rise of Hitler's Nazi party and the Holocaust; the second World War; and the post-war period when veterans returned home to a collapsed and jobless economy. She then takes the reader to the moment when the GI Bill appeared, the glorious moment, as she writes, when returning veterans realized they had been given a future. As her husband begins work on his Ph. D., she focuses on the GI men and their wives as college life consumed them. It is the time also of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the "Red Scare," of the creation of an Israeli state, of the Korean War, and of other important issues, and she discusses them forthrightly. Throughout this section she writes of how the GI's doggedly studied, engaged in critical thinking (perhaps for the first time), discovered their voices. As she suggests, it was not the 1930's anymore, and the GI Bill boys were poised to give America an authentic and robust middle class. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction; Chapter 1. Moving into the Depression; Chapter 2. The Jew Baby; Chapter 3. New York, New York, a Wonderful Town?; Chapter 4. World War I Redux; Chapter 5. Roosevelt Is in, and So Are the New Deal and Fireside Chats; Chapter 6. So Long, Sidewalks of New York; Hello, Moon over Miami; Chapter 7. The New York Depression Kid; Chapter 8. 1939 and 1940; Chapter 9. World War II; Chapter 10. Reassignment; Chapter 11. After the War; Chapter 12. The GI Bill; Chapter 13. Drinks at the Professor's; Chapter 14. Mission Accomplished. |
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United States. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
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Suberman, Stella.
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Suberman, Jack.
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Suberman, Jack. (OCoLC)fst00462724
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Suberman, Stella. (OCoLC)fst00415846
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Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (United States) (OCoLC)fst01916851
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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Veterans -- Education -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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New Deal, 1933-1939. (OCoLC)fst01036721
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Depressions. (OCoLC)fst00890969
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Veterans -- Education.
(OCoLC)fst01165722
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1918-1945
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Suberman, Stella. GI Bill boys. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2012 9781572338555 (DLC) 2011041686 (OCoLC)756377664 |
| Standard No. |
9786613854704 |
| ISBN |
9781572338937 (electronic bk.) |
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1572338938 (electronic bk.) |
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