ISBN: 9780275937157

The Bonus Marcher incident of the summer of 1932 during the Hoover administration is one of the best known events of the 1930s. Historians and Roosevelt biographers have ever since contra… Plus…

The Bonus Marcher incident of the summer of 1932 during the Hoover administration is one of the best known events of the 1930s. Historians and Roosevelt biographers have ever since contrasted the humane treatment of the Bonus Marchers under FDR with the apparent callousness of Hoover. Yet FDR experienced his own Bonus Marcher incident in 1935, one that goes unmentioned in histories of the New Deal years. Fearful of another incident, the Roosevelt administration shipped hundreds of bonus marchers to rehabilitation camps in the South. Many were sent to camps in the Florida Keys for work on the overseas highway project. Largely ignored by Washington, the men were housed in flimsy shacks barely above sea level. As the devastating hurricane of Labor Day 1935 approached the keys, the Bonus Marchers waited unprotected in its path for their supervisors to move them to safety. Confused, divided, and inexperienced leadership, however, prevented help from arriving in time. At least 256 perished.This is an oral and documentary history of the tragedy and is designed for a general audience, as well as for those interested specifically in the 1930s and the Roosevelt administration. It finally balances the Hoover and FDR records on the Bonus Marchers and gives a valuable graphic description of a terrible human tragedy that could easily have been avoided. Books > History > North American History > United States > Modern List_Books, [PU: Praeger]<

ISBN: 9780275937157

Hardback, [PU: ABC-CLIO], The Bonus Marcher incident of the summer of 1932 during the Hoover administration is one of the best known events of the 1930s. Historians and Roosevelt biograph… Plus…

Hardback, [PU: ABC-CLIO], The Bonus Marcher incident of the summer of 1932 during the Hoover administration is one of the best known events of the 1930s. Historians and Roosevelt biographers have ever since contrasted the humane treatment of the Bonus Marchers under FDR with the apparent callousness of Hoover., History Of The Americas<

ISBN: 9780275937157

Hardback, [PU: ABC-CLIO], This oral and documentary history of the tragedy of 256 bonus marchers killed by a hurricane after being moved to "rehabilitation camps" by the FDR administratio… Plus…

Hardback, [PU: ABC-CLIO], This oral and documentary history of the tragedy of 256 bonus marchers killed by a hurricane after being moved to "rehabilitation camps" by the FDR administration is designed for a general audience as well as for those interested in the 1930s., History Of The Americas<

1992, ISBN: 9780275937157

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Praeger Publishers Inc], Praeger Publishers Inc, 1992