Smedley D. Butler, USMC : A Biography

Strecker, Mark

McFarland & Co Inc（2011/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 211 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786448074
• DDC分類 359.96092

Full Description

The practice of big business promoting war to profit materially was firmly in place by the time Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote about it in his anti-corporate pamphlets. This historical biography explores the life of Butler, a little-known American Marine who exposed an alleged fascist coup to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from office. This text is an exploration of the political issues of the first half of the twentieth century and an examination of a complicated, valiant man who shifted from Republican ideals to anti-corporate, left-wing populism.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Names and Quotations

Preface

 1. The Fighting Quaker

 2. An Imperial Action

 3. Coming of Age in the Marines

 4. Uncle Sam's Racketeer

 5. Spy and Soldier

 6. Général Butler

 7. The War on Drinking

 8. Standard Oil's Man

 9. The Mussolini Affair

10. An Unsettling Proposal

11. The Plot Unravels

12. Cassandra

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index