US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler collected an award
cabinet full of medals for his battlefield bravery. But perhaps his
bravest act of all was to declare, after his retirement in the
early 1930s, who was really winning (and losing) during the bloody
clashes. It was business interests, he revealed, who commercially
benefited from warfare. War Is a Racket is the title of the
influential speech Butler delivered on a tour across the United
States, as well the expanded version of the talk that was later
published in 1935 and is now reprinted here. This seminal piece of
writing rings as true today as it did during Butler's lifetime. In
his introduction, Jesse Ventura reviews Butler's original writings
and relates them to our current political climate explaining how
right he was, and how wrong our current system is. With an
insightful new foreword by Salon.com founder David Talbot, and a
new afterword by activist Cindy Sheehan, this portable reference
will appeal to anyone interested in the state of our country and
the entire world. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade
imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers
interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich,
Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the
American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings,
ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While
not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a
national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are
sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise
find a home.
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