Gangsters of Capitalism Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Jonathan M. Katz
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
171

Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz Book Summary

A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shape our world today―told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine.

"Far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler."
―The Washington Post

Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went—serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: “I was a racketeer for capitalism."

Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world—from China to Guantánamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal—and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget.

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Book Name Gangsters of Capitalism
Genre U.S. History
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Language English
E-Book Size 30.38 MB

Gangsters of Capitalism (Jonathan M. Katz) Book Reviews 2024

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Book of the Year!. Should be required reading at every military academy and veterans hall. General Butler was a major player and witness to the brutality of war and it’s aftermath. His eventual epiphany to those who benefitted from waging war and the economics that perpetuates it is brilliantly weaved in the past and present by Mr. Katz.

Lost interest. Lots of interesting history, but very thin on the “business plot”.

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Summary of Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz

The Gangsters of Capitalism book written by Jonathan M. Katz was published on 18 January 2022, Tuesday in the U.S. History category. A total of 171 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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