Evan P. Sullivan is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Adirondack.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Beginning with Carl Bronner Blindness Comes Home: How American Charities Made Blind French Soldiers a Public Issue "I'll Get Along": Reporters Reimagine Blind American Soldiers Gender, Race, and Belonging at Evergreen and Beyond The Disability Politics of Blind Veteran Organizations in the United States Epilogue Frank Schoble and the Persistence of Public Sympathy for Blind Veterans Notes Index
"It's the fate of American veterans who leave military service with disabilities to be seen continuously over historical time by the able-bodied public at the juncture of tragedy, inspiration, and aversion. But myths, stereotypes, and fantasies about these veterans seldom speak to the reality of their lives or their injuries. As Evan P. Sullivan makes clear with skill and intensity in this deeply realized study of the lives of World War I blind soldiers and blind veterans, such projections tell us a great deal more about society, culture, and politics than they do about veterans with disabilities rebuilding their lives after the Great War." --David A. Gerber, editor of Disabled Veterans in History