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The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson, Thomas B. Allen Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-8027-7738-4 / 0802777384 ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-7738-6 / 9780802777386 In the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, some forty-five thousand World War I veterans--whites and blacks together--descended on Washington D.C., from all over the country to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. Fearing violence after the Senat |