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How does a democratic government conscript citizens and turn them into soldiers? This account argues that the doughboy experience in 1917-18 forged the US Army of the 20th century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history - the GI Bill.Keene, Jennifer D. is the author of 'Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America', published 2003 under ISBN 9780801874468 and ISBN 0801874467.
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