War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It - Softcover

Butler, Smedley D.

 
9780922915866: War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It

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General Butler's screed crosses all ideological boundaries.

Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is GeneralSmedley Butler’s frank speech describing his role as a soldier as nothing morethan serving as a puppet for big-business interests. The introduction discusseswhy General Butler went against the corporate war machine and how he exposed afascist coup d’etat plot against President Franklin Roosevelt. Widelyappreciated and referenced by left- and right-wingers alike, this is an extraordinaryargument against war – more relevant now than ever.

This elegant new edition includes additional photos from thenotorious 1932 anti-war book The Horror of It by Frederick A. Barber and twonever-before-published anti-interventionist essays by General Butler.

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