War Is a Racket
The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
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Publisher Description
War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Darlington Butler. In these works, 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 that was published in 1935, now republished with a foreword by former governor of Minnesota and New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura.
Jesse Ventura reviews Major General Butler’s original writings and brings them up to date, relating them to our current political climate. Butler was a visionary in his day, and Ventura works to show how right he was and how wrong our current democracy is. Read for the first time Butler’s words with Ventura’s witty, yet insightful spin on this relevant work that will appeal not only to military historians, but also to those interested in the state of our country and the entire world.
Customer Reviews
This is ridiculous
The version of this book is absolutely ridiculous! You can’t even read half of the book, since most of it is low quality pictures of the old statements. I don’t even understand why I paid £7 for the books that I can’t read physically.
But in general it is an amazing book. I would strictly recommend you to avoid this version. Unless you don’t know where to spend your money.