The Bonus Army

The Bonus Army"The account by Dickson and Allen recalls the subliminal force of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with gaunt stories of character at the limits of dignity." Taylor Branch, New York Review of Books In the summer of 1932, 15,000 World War I veterans marched on Washington, D. C., demanding payment from the Herbert Hoover administration of the bonus promised to them eight years earlier for their wartime service. With the "bonus bill" defeated in the Senate,

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