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Behind the Bastards

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The Breaking of the Bonus Army

I don't know how that would have been received now versus when it was actually published initially, right? We have a pretty different world from then. It is interesting to note that I don't know about John Ross's thoughts on workers' rights, but he's certainly concerned with veterans' rights because these bonus marchers are one of the arguments he uses in his book. The breaking of the bonus army is totally an example of the government becoming an like doing an unhinged authoritarian thing,. But it's also a choice. And John Ross, I feel like just based on what I'm reading here, knows too much history for this not to have been a choice.

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