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Kathleen J. Frydl has been an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2003. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2000, she worked at the National Academy of Sciences for three years before moving to the west coast. She has held academic awards from the University of Chicago, the Mellon Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.
Review of the hardback: 'Kathleen Frydl's history of the G.I. Bill illuminates both the legislation itself and the way Congress operated in the mid-1940s. She has also fused her study of the political history of the Act to an examination of its social and cultural origins and effects as it became, in popular parlance, the G.I. Bill of Rights. It is an exceptionally impressive work of scholarship.' Alan Brinkley, Columbia University Review of the hardback: 'Kathleen Frydl tells the dark side of how racial politics affected the best of legislative good attentions embodied in the G. I. Bill, the most celebrated social policy to emerge out of the Second World War. She takes the reader beyond a simple left-right divide and shows political history at its best - nuanced, carefully balanced, and sobering.' Donald T. Critchlow, author of The Conservative Ascendancy: How GOP Made Political History
