War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General - Softcover

Butler, Smedley D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0922915865 ISBN 13: 9780922915866

Publisher: Feral House, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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War is a Racket

Synopsis:

At a time when President George W. Bush wages unending wars against his "Axis of Evil", it is important to remember what war means, both to winner and loser. WAR IS A RACKET, originally printed in 1935 by The Round Table Press, has been reprinted by both Peaceniks and anti-interventionist right-wingers throughout the century and is also available in truncated form on a number of websites. The original volume is scarce, and only available from online booksellers for three hundred dollars and more. The author of this inflammatory text, General Smedley Butler, twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour, was the most awarded and highly esteemed soldier in American history. A very popular and plain-spoken man, General Butler exposed an American attempt at a coup d'etat in 1932, where he was to be made the first fascist leader of America. At no time was he more outspoken and his anti-interventionism more notorious than in his 1933 speech, "War is a Racket", in which he laid bare what he considered to be the thinly veiled imperialist agenda behind every war fought on foreign shores.

This edition now provides an introduction contextualising what has become a classic anti-war text and manifesto for the peace movement, re-instating its significance to pro- anti-war controversy it continues to generate more than half a century on.

About this edition

• Publisher: Feral House
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0922915865
• ISBN 13: 9780922915866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80