Defining the Peace

In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia’s veterans — black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union — all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In Defining the Peace , Jennifer E. Brooks shows how veterans competed in a protracted and sometimes violent struggle to determine the complex character of Georgia’s postwar future. Brooks finds that veterans shaped the key events of the era, including