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Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation

Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation

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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.

Author: Suzanne Mettler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/10/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.77w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780195331301

About the Author

Suzanne Mettler is Alumni Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, at Syracuse University. She is the author of the prize-winning Dividing Citizens.

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