Gangsters of Capitalism Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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A groundbreaking journey tracing Americas forgotten path to global power?and how its legacies shape our world today?told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine.
"Far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler."
?The Washington Post
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 wentserving 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 worldfrom China to Guantánamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canaland 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.
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- 18 januari 2022
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- Jonathan M Katz
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- St. Martin's Press
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