| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. By Jennifer D. Keene. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi, 294 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-8018-6592-1.)

When historians write about war, they often finish the story when the peace terms have been concluded. But Jennifer D. Keene's book is different. To be sure, she examines how the federal government during World War I assembled, trained, deployed, and demobilized the nation's first conscript army, yet she also explores what happened to the doughboys after they returned home, taking the story through the creation of the American Legion and the ultimately successful efforts to secure a bonus from the federal government in the 1930s. In her view, one of the most important legacies was the American Legion's pivotal role in lobbying for passage of the G.I. Bill of Rights in 1944. Solidly grounded on extensive archival research, including seldom-used French sources, Keene's work deserves an audience not only among scholars of military history and international relations but also among those interested in questions of race, social welfare, labor, and the relationship between the individual citizen and the state in the twentieth century. . . .

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