Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

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.

"The book is far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler... a compelling and insightful meditation on the trauma people still feel as a result of Butler's career and the American ambitions it represented."
-The Washington Post

Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling bo...