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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Hardcover
Military Biographies20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781250135582
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Jan 18 2022
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.50 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
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.
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