OLD GIMLET EYE: ADVENTURES OF SMEDLEY D. BUTLER—as told to Lowell Thomas—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). Now that Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler has retired, the U. S. Marine Corps is not so often ...
Smedley Butler had been an outstanding Marine Corps Major General, during his time the highest rank possible for that branch of the service. He is also one of few who were awarded the Medal of Honor ...
The Washington Post: Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler: A Marine hero who saw himself as a ‘racketeer for capitalism’
Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler in a 1931 photo. Butler earned fame fighting America’s imperialist wars, writes Jonathan Katz, but later came to regret his role. (AP) Review by Eric Rauchway Marine ...
Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler: A Marine hero who saw himself as a ‘racketeer for capitalism’
Task & Purpose: The wild story of Marine legend Smedley Butler that you won’t hear at boot camp
The wild story of Marine legend Smedley Butler that you won’t hear at boot camp
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire, by Jonathan M. Katz, Macmillan, 432 pages, $29.99 The legend of Smedley Butler has sustained the ...
Marine Corps Times: Smedley Butler, American empire & war profiteering subject of new book
The book "Gangsters of Capitalism," published in 2022, chronicles the career of Marine Corps legend Smedley Butler and his disillusionment with America's early attempts at empire-building. (St. Martin ...
Inside Edition: Smedley Butler Was Marine Hero Who Called Himself a ‘Racketeer for Capitalism’
Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated U.S. Marines of the 20th century, yet by the end of his career, he grew to renounce many of the things he’d done. Butler is the subject of journalist ...