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Gangsters of Capitalism
- Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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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.
Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Best-selling 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 POW extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of US 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.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Lively, deeply researched ... Katz’s engaging style brings history alive."—Associated Press
"Like Butler himself, Katz’s book is singular and hard to pin down ... an exhilarating hybrid of studious history and adventuresome travelogue."—Jacobin
"Katz’s realism may shock many readers, but they would be well served to join him in pulling back the curtain, tipping over the jugs of institutional Kool-Aid, and taking a long, cold hard look in the proverbial mirror. Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, this is a raw historical perspective that will both fascinate and unsettle."—Task and Purpose
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War Is a Racket is a 1935 book by Smedley D. Butler (1881 –1940), a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient who became an outspoken critic of American wars and their consequences. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he took part in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, the Caribbean, and France. After his retirement from the US Marine Corps in 1931, he took his speech "War is a Racket" on a nationwide tour. Due to its popularity, he wrote a longer version for a booklet published in 1935.
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Timeless
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The Big Truck That Went By
- How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
- De: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jonathan M. Katz
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed.
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This story angered and cheered inside me
- De rifenbc en 03-01-19
De: Jonathan M. Katz
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War Is a Racket
- De: Smedley Butler
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Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, "I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent 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 for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of the racket all the time. Now I am sure of it".
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War Is a Racket
- De: Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC Retired
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A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering.This was a speech given by General Butler during a nationwide tour in the early 1930's, but it applies even more today! Listen as he frankly discusses, from his experience as a career military officer, how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He then suggests several practical solutions for reducing the pillage.
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We all need to hear it
- De L. C. Pinkerton en 02-28-15
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War Is a Racket
- De: General Smedley Darlington Butler
- Narrado por: William Dougan
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War Is a Racket is Marine General Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Few people are as qualified as General Butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his book's sensational title. When War Is a Racket was first published in 1935, Butler was the most decorated American soldier of his time. He had led several successful military operations in the Caribbean and in Central America, as well as in Europe during the First World War.
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The apparent truth of it all!
- De Ms. Vee en 04-16-24
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The Plot to Seize the Whitehouse
- The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR
- De: Jules Archer
- Narrado por: Ken Maxon
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy industrialists - in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League - planned to overthrow the U.S. government in a fascist coup. Their plan was to turn discontented veterans into American "brown shirts," depose F.D.R., and stop the New Deal. They clandestinely asked Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to become the first American Caesar. He, though, was a true patriot and revealed the plot to journalists and to Congress.
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Good storytelling, poor voice-over
- De Wayne Hughes en 02-12-13
De: Jules Archer
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War Is a Racket
- The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
- De: Smedley Darlington Butler
- Narrado por: Victor Craig
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War Is a Racket is a 1935 book by Smedley D. Butler (1881 –1940), a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient who became an outspoken critic of American wars and their consequences. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he took part in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, the Caribbean, and France. After his retirement from the US Marine Corps in 1931, he took his speech "War is a Racket" on a nationwide tour. Due to its popularity, he wrote a longer version for a booklet published in 1935.
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Timeless
- De T. Reagh en 06-10-24
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The Big Truck That Went By
- How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
- De: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jonathan M. Katz
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed.
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This story angered and cheered inside me
- De rifenbc en 03-01-19
De: Jonathan M. Katz
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War Is a Racket
- De: Smedley Butler
- Narrado por: John Greenman
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Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, "I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent 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 for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of the racket all the time. Now I am sure of it".
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War Is a Racket
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After his retirement from the Marine Corps in the early 1930s, General Smedley D. Butler embarked on a national lecture tour, where he gave his speech about how commercial interests benefit from war. The speech was well received and he wrote an expanded version of it, which was published as War Is A Racket. The work was published by Reader's Digest as a condensed book supplement, which added to its popularity.
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Most pertinent today as it was between the wars.
- De Willie the Shoe en 11-18-19
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American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
- De Sams95 en 11-18-22
De: Adam Hochschild
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How to Hide an Empire
- A History of the Greater United States
- De: Daniel Immerwahr
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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We are familiar with maps that outline all 50 states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire", exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, and archipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light.
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How to beat a straw man to death
- De Susan en 01-25-20
De: Daniel Immerwahr
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Centuries Will Not Suffice
- A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Bruce Mann
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Centuries Will Not Suffice explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the experiences of many who were caught up in the maelstrom.
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An unexpected gem
- De Ryan en 03-31-24
De: Prit Buttar
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- De: Vincent Bevins
- Narrado por: Tim Paige
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In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.
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Great book, but the narration has serious flaws
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 08-03-20
De: Vincent Bevins
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Reign of Terror
- How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
- De: Spencer Ackerman
- Narrado por: Spencer Ackerman
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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For an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, the era pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, weakened the rule of law through indefinite detentions, sanctioned torture, and manipulated the truth about it all. These conflicts have yielded neither peace nor victory, but they have transformed America. Today’s nativist resurgence walked through a door opened by the 9/11 era. And that door remains open.
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Insightful and true, but leftist
- De Danel.Rakovski en 08-18-21
De: Spencer Ackerman
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Empress Dowager Cixi
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Jolene Kim
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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At the age of 16, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China - behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male.
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An insult to audiobooks. Get a print version.
- De Reademandweep en 02-23-15
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Democracy at Work
- A Cure for Capitalism
- De: Richard D. Wolff
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.
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Fantastic
- De Brandon en 03-07-19
De: Richard D. Wolff
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Blackshirts and Reds
- Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
- De: Michael Parenti
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege.
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couldn't believe this was on audible
- De Amazon Customer en 02-24-22
De: Michael Parenti
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Reaganland
- America's Right Turn 1976-1980
- De: Rick Perlstein
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jacques Roy, y otros
- Duración: 45 h y 18 m
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Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford's defeat, too old to make another run.
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This Book is Censored by Audible
- De Nathan D. Backlund en 09-07-20
De: Rick Perlstein
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Emperor of Japan
- Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
- De: Donald Keene
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 38 h y 13 m
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Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan's history. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest.
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Great book. Terrible narration.
- De Ken Snyder en 07-05-23
De: Donald Keene
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China and Japan
- Facing History
- De: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 22 h y 51 m
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China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.
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China & Japan is first rate by a top scholar
- De Louise Stone en 06-17-20
De: Ezra F. Vogel
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Gangsters of Capitalism
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- John Cashman
- 04-26-22
Excellent book
This is an excellent and timely book on a long neglected subject. Very highly recommended.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-18-22
Brilliant
Great book, wonderfully alternating between Butler's career and vignettes telling us about the places his actions affected.
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- BYbarra
- 04-11-23
Remarkable and Revealing
General Smedley Butler, have you heard of him? His story is one of a loyal marine who moved up through the ranks and fought where he was sent in the years before and after WWI. Decorated with two Medal of Honors.
But as he serves the more he sustained how the US military was not used to defend the United States but for political-business reasons. For invading, coercing and manipulating other weaker nations.
He loved his country and democracy and believed his mission was to protect both, but instead he was used for the interest of American big business.
The author traveled to all the places the general fought and relates the situations to later times of US history to even the present.
It is a worthy and valuable biography to read. If you dare leave your political and world history closet.
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- J. Ford
- 06-10-23
Skewed left some
A great story and great research including going to the locations. The author tried to tell multiple sides of a story but still missed a few and made it seem a little more conspiracy than reality.
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- A. S. Read
- 06-30-23
So much to absorb
Loved it. Should be required reading for hx buffs. Reader was great too. Lots to absorb.
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- Lizzie Ketzenberger
- 04-18-24
How we got here
Great book about the history we aren’t told in school. An enlightening look at how we got here. Well told narrative history and nicely tied into our current times.
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- Benjamin
- 01-28-22
historical tour of the crimes of American Empire
thoughtful investigation of the life of Smedley Butler in both historical context and through the lense of the author traveling to major sites of Butler's life. ties the strands of the present back to some of the historic turning points for the early American Empire. documents many of the atrocities that Butler took part in or orchestrated for the benefit of gangster capitalism.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-25-22
a man's journey to self-realization and awareness.
Smedley Butler, a racist and bigoted man, who spent his life in forcing the will of capitalist imperialist upon the Lesser nations of the world. He was changed by his brutal experiences to question the ruthless imperialism of his government and Military fellows.
an eye-opening revelation of America's past imperialism and its effect on today's fragile democracy.
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- J Robinson
- 03-27-22
Exceptional read
Great examination of America’s Imperial past and its impact on the present. Fascinating look at America’s occupation of Haiti and its effects.
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- Brandon Hellbusch
- 05-15-22
A good round perspective of Smedley Butler
Being a person who is generally anti-war and very skeptical of the state department. I learned a great deal more about what the United States did during the early 1900's. The overall narrative in most US history classes jumps from the Civil War, a slight bit on the Spanish War, then straight through to WW1. Butler was in pivotal areas and conflicts I was unaware of before listening to this audio book.This was educational and raw veiw of Butler and his legacy, the bad and the good.
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