A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau

Rosemary Stevens

Johns Hopkins University Press Hardcover $34.95 (408pp) 978-1-4214-2130-8 This is a nuanced and well-documented exploration of the controversies around the early Veterans Bureau.

In 1921, with soldiers back from the Great War in need of medical care, the Harding administration introduced the Veterans Bureau under the leadership of Charles Forbes. Rosemary Stevens documents the rise and fall of Forbes in A Time