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The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans. By Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 246 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-518228-6.)
Creating educational opportunities for World War II veterans, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. often referred to as the G.I. Bill, had a prodigious impact on many Americans. But those opportunities were just part of the boon created by this law; it also allowed those returning from the war to receive home loans and paved the way for more members of minority groups to enter elite universities. The G.I. Bill, however, was not a panacea for problems relating to discrimination on college campuses, and for this reason it has been criticized by such scholars as Lizabeth Cohen...