Title: A disappointing effort
Review: This book is a rather disappointing effort. It appears to be a cut-and-paste job of previous accounts. Worst of all, it repeats the falsehood that Douglas MacArthur deliberately disobeyed President Hoover in crossing the Anacostia bridge during the climactic end of the Bonus Army on July 28, 1932.Historians have long known better. See for example, Perret's "Old Soldiers Never Die" (Random House 1996)The story of the Bonus Army was an interesting event in the Depression era- combining the confused politics and economics of that time with nearly unprecedented societal anxieties. One can only hope a more worthy modern examination will be forthcoming.
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