War is a Racket

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The antiwar classic by America’s most decorated general, two other anti-interventionist tracts, and photographs from 'The Horror of It: Camera Records of War’s Gruesome Glories' Introductions by Adam PARFREY. [rear cover:] "I spent 33 years in the Marine Corps... most of my time being a high-class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. -- Smedley D. Butler. * * * SMEDLEY DARLINGTON BUTLER took his constitutional vows seriously, repelling threats to America both from without and within. Shortly after retiring from a lauded career, the popular Marine brought down a fascist corporate plot to seize the White House. Concerned for the future of democracy, Butler began to speak out against the venal motives behind many of this country's military actions. Written during the Great Depression, *War is a Racket* pulls no punches against a corrupt military-industrial complex, eager to murder both foreign and native-born children for the sake of profit. The Feral House edition includes two other anti-interventionist screeds written by Butler, in addition to photographs taken from the astonishing 1932 antiwar book, *The Horror of It*. Adam Parfrey's introduction reveals names suppressed from a congressional investigation that verified the right-wing coup plotted against President Franklin D. Roosevelt by corporate bigwigs. *War is a Racket*, the piss-and-vinegar classic, may be even more relevant today than when it was first published 70 years ago."