LEADER 00000cam a22012617i 4500 001 wbzvhcrdtg48whrp 008 220126s2021 nyuabf||||||||001 0beng|c 020 9781250135582|q(hardcover) 020 1250135583|q(hardcover) 020 |z9781250135605 ((ebook) 041 eng 082 00 973.91/6|223 092 0 973|bengelska 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. |2fast 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 650 7 Generals.|2fast 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 651 7 Pennsylvania.|2fast 651 7 United States.|2fast 651 7 Pennsylvania|zPhiladelphia.|2fast 655 7 Biographies.|2fast 655 7 History.|2fast 655 7 Military history.|2fast
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