Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

by Jonathan M. Katz

Book Overview

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.

The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on the trauma people still feel as a result of Butler's career and the American ambitions it represented.
--The Washington...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250135591
• ISBN13: 9781250135599
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"