![]() ![]() ![]() Butler was the youngest major general in Marine Corps history, and at the time of his death, he was the most decorated Marine who had ever lived.īut accolades were not enough to ease his troubled conscience. Along the way, he attained a kind of public glory few soldiers even dream of. The trajectory of his life as a soldier traced the arc of US imperial expansion in the early twentieth century, from Cuba to the Philippines to Nicaragua to Haiti to Shanghai, with many stops in between. And that’s what he did, at first.Īfter matriculating in elite schools, Butler enlisted in the Marines as a second lieutenant at the age of seventeen. Martin’s Press, 2022)īorn into a family of congressmen and millionaires in 1881, Smedley Butler was destined to succeed in the career of his choice while promoting the interests of his class. ![]() Review of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire by Jonathan M. ![]()
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