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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.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction The Invisible The Hurricane The Dead The Aftermath The Whitewash Notes Bibliographic Essay

About the Author

GARY DEAN BEST is Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He is the author of The Politics of American Individualism (Greenwood Press, 1975), To Free a People (Greenwood, 1982), Herbert Hoover: The Postpresidential Years (2 volumes, 1983), and Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery, 1933-1938 (Praeger, 1991), as well as numerous essays for scholarly books and journals. He has held fellowships from the American Historical Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Fulbright Scholar in Japan from 1974 to 1975.