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A review by ian_in_dallas
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
3.0
Overall it is a worthwhile read if only to point out how quickly all of this U.S. imperialism took place, more or less in the span of one mans career.
I really did not like the way that the author centered there experience of fallowing the foot steps of the Butler, it felt like it was at times white washing the experiences of the people in those place and their stores and troubles. It was at the Verry least off-putting. I suppose that is the trap of the biographer I don't know.
I really did not like the way that the author centered there experience of fallowing the foot steps of the Butler, it felt like it was at times white washing the experiences of the people in those place and their stores and troubles. It was at the Verry least off-putting. I suppose that is the trap of the biographer I don't know.