Katz’s lively, deeply researched “Gangsters of Capitalism” tracks Butler’s three decades of foreign conquest. His answer: “Yes.” Smedley Butler was the tip of the spear in democracy-thwarting invasions and occupations beginning in 1898 whose beneficiaries included the banker J.P.
empire-building expedition - in Cuba, the Philippines, Panama, Mexico, Nicaragua and Haiti - asked himself the same question. Some wonder: Were they instruments of less-than-noble imperialist adventures?Ī century ago, a gimlet-eyed Marine who featured in pretty much every early U.S. veterans of the country’s 21-century “forever wars” - men and women who lost buddies and limbs to roadside bombs and suffer psychic scars - struggle to understand the why behind them. “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire” by Jonathan M.
Martin's Press shows "Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire" by Jonathan M.
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