| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation. By Suzanne Mettler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii, 252 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518097-8.)

There can be little question about the significance of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. For the 15 million Americans who served in World War II, it offered weekly payments for a year until they found work, low-interest loans for tuition costs or home, farm, or business purchase, and subsistence to support college, university, school, or on-the-job training. With that support, over 4 million veterans purchased homes, 200,000 bought farms, and almost 8 million (over 50 percent of all veterans) took advantage of the educational provisions. By 1947, veterans accounted for almost 50 percent of all students in the country. It is the impact particularly of the educational provision that is the focus of this study by the political scientist Suzanne Mettler.

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