Nancy Lessin
“Our Veterans . . . [is] a meticulous account of the many challenges facing military service members and their families, while on active duty and afterwards. . . . This is an amazing, timely, and much needed book.”
Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger’s Journey Out of the Military and Across America - Rory Fanning
“Few are more qualified to critically assess the impact of America’s decades-long wars than Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven. . . . Our Veterans should be read and shared by everyone looking to challenge America’s war machine.”
Lindsay Church
“Our Veterans pulls back the curtain on the military and veteran community, often shrouded and protected by invocations of patriotism. . . . This book is a wake-up call for an American public led to believe that our country supports veterans.”
I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars - Chris Lombardi
“Our Veterans tells a working-class story, a labor story, and a political story. In the process, the authors have done the near-impossible: written a page-turner about the VA. While alarming in many ways, this book is also hopeful. It shows how VA-delivered care can be strengthened and improved as a model for health care for all.”
Michael Blecker
“As this book reveals, too many men and women in the military are exposed, callously and carelessly, to a toxic work environment. Their service-related problems can lead to unemployment, homelessness, and high suicide rates. That’s why veterans need more real friends in Congress and in the public who will better defend the lifesaving programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Our Veterans is a call to action by everyone concerned about health equity and educational opportunity for all Americans.”
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back - Donald Cohen
“This important book effectively debunks the myth that outsourced federal services are better and more cost-effective, while revealing the dangers of turning VA patients into ‘customers’ of the healthcare industry.”
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control - Stephen Kinzer
“Americans disagree on many things, but we all love and honor our veterans, right? No, according to this eye-opening book. Finally we have an honest account that contrasts our game-day celebration of veterans with the cold realities many of them face in post-military life. Written with compassion and just the right amount of outrage, Our Veterans is an essential contribution to an urgent national debate.”
