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War Is A Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General

War Is A Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General


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Originally printed in 1953, War is a Racket was the interventionist speech of the most decorated soldier in American history, a man twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, who was to be made the facist American leader in a 1932 coup d'etat. Instead, he exposed the attempt with this impressive, plain-speaking speech, one that has proven to be as popular with both peaceniks and anti-interventionists as it is extremely rare. This new edition offers an introduction contextualising Butler's speech and its importance on both sides of the fence decades after.

About the Author :
General Smedley D. Butler was born in West Chester, Pa., in 1881. Educated at Haverford School he went on to become a Major General in the United States Marine Corps and was awarded two Congressional Medals of Honour. He received a Distinguished Service Medal in 1919 and retired from the army in 1931, after which he became the director of the Department of Safety and Republican Candidate for Senate, whilst working as a lecturer. He died in 1940.

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"There is little likelihood one will encounter a putdown and discounting of armed service, while questioning the reason for it, by a top experienced commander, anywhere within a light year of Marine General Smedley D. Butler's WAR IS A RACKET. And there is utterly nothing comparable to the grim anthology of photographs devoted to the unspeakable hideousness of the bloody gore of modern - since Napoleonic times - warfare, THE HORROR OF IT. The American public recoiled from these two works when they were published, in close sequence, two generations ago... We can hope that this dual masterpiece at hand, in quite a different context, does a better job of reducing the level of ignorance."
-- James J. Martin

"Butler is scathing in his description of how the U.S. government wasted the lives of those soldiers who died but also of those who survived... A stunning condemnation of U.S. militarism and it ends with a demand that rings true down to today - 'To hell with war.'"
-- Ashley Smith, Socialist Worker

"America had seen its own attempt at a Fascist coup. Why, then, is this incident in U.S. history not better known? Why don't children learn in school about the plot to seize the United States government?... The time has obviously come for Smedley Butler to have his moment in the sun. Butler's attack on the military-industrial complex does more than expose war for the racket it is: It also gives the antiwar movement unmatched credibility."-- Ken Mondschein, corporatemofo.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780922915866
  • Publisher: Feral House,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Feral House,U.S.
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Sub Title: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0922915865
  • Publisher Date: 21 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 101 gr


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