Format:
Online-Ressource (436 p)
ISBN:
9781504031516
Series Statement:
Forbidden Bookshelf v.20
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Introduction -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part One: After the Revolution -- 1 Lambs and Bees or Tigers and Wolves -- 2 Half Pay, Full Taxes, and Engines of Vice -- 3 Officer Princes and the Art of Living Happily Ever After -- 4 Daniel Shays: From True Patriot to Counterfeit Public Enemy -- 5 A Little Rebellion Now and Then -- Part Two: The War of 1812 and the Mexican War -- 6 Like Sweet Poison on the Taste -- 7 Just Debts and Common Sense -- 8 St. Patrick Goes to Mexico -- Part Three: The Civil War -- 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and the Concussion of Young Men -- 10 The Day That Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Voted in Indiana -- 11 Bounties and Blacks -- 12 Palace of Pensions -- Part Four: The War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection -- 13 Embalmed Beef, Bad Water, Typhoid, and Five-Dollar Coffins at Montauk Point -- 14 Of Mutilations, Massacres, and McKinley -- Part Five: After the First World War -- 15 When Italians Lacked the "Conveniences for Thinking" and Black Mothers Traveled Second Class -- 16 67,000 Quarts of Whiskey, Enough Floor Wax to Cover South Dakota, and "to hell with the Central Office" -- 17 Mellon, du Pont, and the Chamber of Commerce: Fighting Is Its Own Reward -- 18 The Great Depression and the Ghost of Daniel Shays -- Part Six: After the Second World War -- 19 Sweet Wine at Last -- 20 Forgotten Women, Failed Men -- Part Seven: The Korean War -- 21 The Scapegoats -- 22 The Scapegoaters -- Part Eight: The Vietnam War and the Agent Orange Affair -- 23 The Red Carpet Leads to Rejection -- 24 When Not to Know Means Not to Pay -- 25 The VA and Dow versus the Christians -- 26 Avoid Politicians and Lawyers and Get a Good PR Man -- 27 The White House Suppresses a Report -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors.
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Introduction; Introduction; Prologue; Part One: After the Revolution; 1 Lambs and Bees or Tigers and Wolves; 2 Half Pay, Full Taxes, and Engines of Vice; 3 Officer Princes and the Art of Living Happily Ever After; 4 Daniel Shays: From True Patriot to Counterfeit Public Enemy; 5 A Little Rebellion Now and Then; Part Two: The War of 1812 and the Mexican War; 6 Like Sweet Poison on the Taste; 7 Just Debts and Common Sense; 8 St. Patrick Goes to Mexico; Part Three: The Civil War
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9 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and the Concussion of Young Men10 The Day That Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Voted in Indiana; 11 Bounties and Blacks; 12 Palace of Pensions; Part Four: The War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection; 13 Embalmed Beef, Bad Water, Typhoid, and Five-Dollar Coffins at Montauk Point; 14 Of Mutilations, Massacres, and McKinley; Part Five: After the First World War; 15 When Italians Lacked the "Conveniences for Thinking" and Black Mothers Traveled Second Class
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16 67,000 Quarts of Whiskey, Enough Floor Wax to Cover South Dakota, and "to hell with the Central Office"17 Mellon, du Pont, and the Chamber of Commerce: Fighting Is Its Own Reward; 18 The Great Depression and the Ghost of Daniel Shays; Part Six: After the Second World War; 19 Sweet Wine at Last; 20 Forgotten Women, Failed Men; Part Seven: The Korean War; 21 The Scapegoats; 22 The Scapegoaters; Part Eight: The Vietnam War and the Agent Orange Affair; 23 The Red Carpet Leads to Rejection; 24 When Not to Know Means Not to Pay; 25 The VA and Dow versus the Christians
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26 Avoid Politicians and Lawyers and Get a Good PR Man27 The White House Suppresses a Report; Epilogue; Notes; Index; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Copyright Page
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781504031516
Additional Edition:
Print version The Wages of War : When America's Soldiers Came Home: From Valley Forge to Vietnam
Language:
English
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