Rosemary Stevens
Author
Series
Beau Brummell mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes, as founding director. Forbes lasted in the position for only eighteen months before stepping down under a cloud of criticism and suspicion. In 1926--after...