War Is a Racket · the Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
- Authors
- Butler, Smedley D.
- Publisher
- Feral House
- Tags
- politics , history , war , philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780922915231
- Date
- 1935-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.22 MB
- Lang
- en
General Smedley Butler s frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever.
Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is General Smedley Butler s frank speech describing his role as a soldier as nothing more than serving as a puppet for big-business interests. In addition to photos from the notorious 1932 anti-war book "The Horror of It" by Frederick A. Barber, this book includes two never-before-published anti-interventionist essays by General Butler. The introduction discusses why General Butler went against the corporate war machine and how he exposed a fascist coup d etat plot against President Franklin Roosevelt. Widely appreciated and referenced by left- and right-wingers alike, this is an extraordinary argument against war - more relevant now than ever.
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