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100 1  Katz, Jonathan M.|4aut 
245 10 Gangsters of capitalism :|bSmedley Butler, the Marines, 
       and the making and breaking of America's empire /
       |cJonathan M. Katz 
246 10 Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the making and breaking 
       of America's empire 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    viii, 412 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates
       |billustrations, map|c25  cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher 
600 10 Butler, Smedley D.|q(Smedley Darlington),|d1881-1940 
600 17 Butler, Smedley D.|q(Smedley Darlington),|d1881-1940.
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610 10 United States.|bMarine Corps|xOfficers|vBiography 
610 10 United States.|bMarine Corps|xHistory 
610 17 United States.|bMarine Corps.|2fast 
648  7 1900-talet|2sao 
648  7 2000-2099|2fast 
650  0 Imperialism 
650  0 Generals|zUnited States|vBiography 
650  0 Pacifists|zPennsylvania|vBiography 
650  0 Quakers|zPennsylvania|zPhiladelphia|vBiography 
650  7 Militärhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Imperialism|2sao 
650  7 Historia|2sao 
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650  7 Imperialism.|2fast 
650  7 Pacifists.|2fast 
650  7 Quakers.|2fast 
650  7 Armed Forces|xOfficers.|2fast 
651  0 United States|xHistory, Military|y21st century 
651  7 Förenta staterna|2sao 
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