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PROLOGUE Troop Movement Unlike Any Other | 1 | (3) | |
CHAPTER 1 The Greatest Regeneration: The Accidental Remaking of America | 4 | (37) | |
CHAPTER 2 Cold Wars, Hot Rockets, a New American Dream | 41 | (32) | |
CHAPTER 3 Investing in the Future: Bill Thomas and the Rise of Suburbia | 73 | (34) | |
CHAPTER 4 Bill and Vivian Kingsley: G.I. Tech | 107 | (28) | |
CHAPTER 5 Out of the Blue: Medical Miracles | 135 | (19) | |
CHAPTER 6 Nixon and Kennedy, Bonnie and Clyde: The G.I. Bill and the Arts | 154 | (33) | |
CHAPTER 7 Gunnery Mates and Other Invisible Veterans: Women and the G.I. Bill that Wasn't | 187 | (28) | |
CHAPTER 8 Monte Posey's War: Race and the G.I. Bill | 215 | (40) | |
CHAPTER 9 What's inside? Leaders and the G.I. Bill | 255 | (28) | |
EPILOGUE Kilroy's Not Here: The Future and the G.I. Bill | 283 | (26) | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 309 | (1) | |
A NOTE ON SOURCES | 310 | (3) | |
INDEX | 313 |
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