War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
Aug 2003 · Feral House
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General Smedley Butler’s frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever.
Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is General Smedley Butler’s frank speech describing his role as a soldier as nothing more than serving as a puppet for big-business interests. In addition to photos from the notorious 1932 anti-war book The Horror of It by Frederick A. Barber, this book includes two never-before-published anti-interventionist essays by General Butler. The introduction discusses why General Butler went against the corporate war machine and how he exposed a fascist coup d’etat plot against President Franklin Roosevelt. Widely appreciated and referenced by left- and right-wingers alike, this is an extraordinary argument against war - more relevant now than ever.
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Adam Parfrey was born in Los Angeles, California on April 12, 1957. He co-founded Amok Press with Kenneth Swezey in 1986. Parfrey was also the founder and publisher of Feral House Press. He was the author or editor of several books including It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps; Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes; Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society; and Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind. He was the co-editor of Exit magazine and appeared in and co-wrote Crispin Glover's controversial What Is It? Parfrey and his band, the Tards, recorded two CDs. He died on May 10, 2018 at the age of 61.
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