Smedley Butler

Writings

• War is a Racket (New York: Round Table Press, 1935): For an understanding of the anti-military sentiment of the 1930s

Notes

• 1934, The Business Plot: US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testifies to the US Congress that he was approached by a group of wealthy industrialists (The American Liberty League) who attempted to recruit him to serve as the leader of a plot to overthrow president Franklin D. Roosevelt and to assume and wield power once the coup was successful. See lessons from history.

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