War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War is a Racket." The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a small ...
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War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War is a Racket." The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a small book with the same title that was published in 1935 by Round Table Press, Inc., of New York. The booklet was also condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, the "as told to" author of Butler's oral autobiographical adventures, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage"
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Fine. No Dust Jacket As Issued. Stapled wraps with illustration on the front. 5.5 by 8.5 inches; 42 pages; illustrated with b/w photographs. A reprint of an antiwar publication from 1935, with a new forward by Joe Haldeman and an introduction by Ed Roberts. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. "Probably the most concise indictment of non-defensive warfare ever written."-Robert H. Weems. Subjects: War, Military, Politics, Conspiracy, United States, FDR, Coup, Military Industrial Complex.
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Good. pp. [vi], 52. First printing. "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious."-p. 1. Butler [1881-1940] knew his subject intimately, having served in numerous military actions around the world while coming to his conclusion. He died five years after publication as the most decorated Marine in U.S. history until that time, having received not one but two Congressional Medals of Honor. "Probably the most concise indictment of non-defensive warfare ever written."-Robert H. Weems. Half-inch chip from bottom corner of page one. Faint library writing to base of backstrip. Faint one-inch diameter moisture mark at black titling upon front board. Library blind stamp atop title page, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's red buckram. Binding intact. Backstrip professionally restored. New endpapers. Dust jacket not included. Weems p.16. 7.75 x 5.25 inches.; 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; War, Military, Politics, Conspiracy, United States, FDR, Coup, Military Industrial Complex, Smedley Butler.
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Booklet is the word for this, about twenty pages. Cogent and prescient about the coming war in Europe, but Butler's solution to disarm the world is a fantasy unworthy of an adult.
mfontan
May 30, 2014
A real eye opener
An extremely interesting book. Its only defect is being too short, as General Butler could no doubt have enlightened us with much more information he certainly had.
Anyway, I think this book may be an excellent tool for people of all persuasions to use and learn to think by themselves, to be critical and not accept propaganda as facts.
I seriously recommend it.
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