A review by msartor53
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

4.0

Solid book overall. I think reason I didn't give it five stars is that it had a hard time mixing the overall themes with the focus Smedley Butler. I felt like I lost Smedley Butler's life in the middle, and did not get a true sense of character. I also think the travel log and and bringing to present did not always add much to me. It felt like the book was a mixture of biography with a Newspaper Series, and sometimes it worked sometimes it didn't. The chapters on the Philippines and the bell, and also the Business Plot was my favorites and I think its because they were the two chapters that combined both aspects.