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Title Gangsters of capitalism : Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the making and breaking of America's empire / Jonathan M. Katz
Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, [2021]
©2021

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Edition First edition
Descript viii, 412 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, map 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
"A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power-and how its legacies shape our world today-told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went-serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism." Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world-from China to Guantánamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal-and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940
Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940.
United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography
United States. Marine Corps -- History
United States. Marine Corps.
1900-talet
2000-2099
Militärhistoria
Imperialism
Historia
Imperialism
Generals -- United States -- Biography
Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- Biography
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
Generals.
Imperialism.
Pacifists.
Quakers.
Armed Forces -- Officers.
Förenta staterna
United States -- History, Military -- 21st century
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Biographies.
History.
Military history.
Classmark 973.91/6
Add Title Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the making and breaking of America's empire
ISBN/ISSN 9781250135582 (hardcover)
1250135583 (hardcover)
9781250135605 ((ebook)
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