| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Canada and the United States

Jennifer D. Keene. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. (War, Society, Culture.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 294. $38.00.

On June 17, 1932, American veterans of the Great War congregated outside the Capitol building, waiting for the Senate's vote on a bill that would grant immediate and full payment of the bonus promised them in 1924. Veterans had descended on Washington, D.C., by the thousands in that Depression spring in a stunning display of desperation popularly known as the Bonus March. Entertaining themselves on the afternoon of the vote by singing wartime songs, the veterans acknowledged their plight in an ironic rewriting of the popular wartime hit "Over There." "All you here—here and there/Pay the bonus, pay the bonus everywhere," the veterans urged, "For the Yanks are starving,/The Yanks are starving,/The Yanks are starving everywhere" (p. 191). One chapter in her superb history of American soldiers during and after World War I, Jennifer D. Keene's riveting account of the Bonus Marchers exemplifies her larger success in this book, captivating her audience and proving her argument that the war transformed the relationship between these soldiers and the American state and initiated a process of contestation that led to dramatic changes in the military during the war, and in domestic affairs in its aftermath.

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