War Is a Racket

War Is a Racket - Paperback

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War Is a Racket. It always has been. The few profit, the many pay in lives and dollars. In this blistering short book, U.S. Marine Smedley D. Butler reveals how he spent his army career serving not his country, but Wall Street and oil barons. He exposes war as the ultimate racket, where industrialists reap billions while soldiers die. Butler demands we take the profit out of war - by conscripting the wealthy first.

Butler's explosive 1935 classic exposes the military-industrial complex decades before the term existed. War Is a Racket is a veteran's firsthand indictment of how wars are fought for profit, not patriotism.

Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940) was the most decorated U.S. Marine of his time, receiving two Medals of Honor for actions in Mexico and Haiti and rising to the rank of major general. After a 34-year career in conflicts across the globe, he retired and became a vocal critic of American imperialism and war profiteering.

ISBN9780645594898
Author Smedley Butler , Smedley Darlington Butler
PublisherSpinebill Press
GenreNews & politics and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages48
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Smedley Darlington Butler

Jesse Ventura is the former independent governor of Minnesota. He is also a former US Navy frogman, a professional wrestler, a movie actor, a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including American Conspiracies, 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read, and Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! He was the host and executive producer of truTV's Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, which won the Stony Award from High Times magazine in 2010. He was also the host of the political talk show Off The Grid, which aired on RT America and online at Ora.tv. He has a reputation as a rebel and a freethinker, and he has no qualms about questioning authority. He spends half the year in Baja, Mexico and the other half in his home state of Minnesota. David Talbot is the New York Times bestselling author of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil's Chessboard. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Salon and has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Time. He lives in San Francisco.

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