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 books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went--serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantбnamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism. Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world--from China to Guantбnamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal--and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget.
Автор: Smedley Zack Название: Tonight We Rule the World ISBN: 1645673324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645673323 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: To view God as one who randomly and mysteriously moves through human history doing here and there whatever and however the Hepleases is not how the Bible story reads. It may be conceived and proposed to work this way philosophically, where God does at will what God wants. But if one is talking about the acts of God in the Bible, history speaks of God who is goal oriented, and that, in achieving His purpose for the human race, the covenant idea was employed by God to get people where God hopesHe could get us to go. Gods being an agenda oriented being is not a typical attribute of God in most world religions. And it is unfortunate because
Автор: Jenny Smedley Название: Soul Mates ISBN: 0749958405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749958404 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bestselling author and columnist Jenny Smedley reveals the secrets to finding your soul mate
Автор: Smedley, Jenny Название: Forever faithful ISBN: 1846941741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846941740 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10550.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: `In this important, timely, and superblywritten book, Robert Kagan shows that the "end of history" was an illusion. Today`s global challenges pose a stern test for the world`s democracies. This book is a wake-up call and should be read by policymakers, politicians, pundits and all who want a guide to the dangerous waters of 21st century geopolitics.` Senator John McCain
Автор: Butler, Smedley D. Название: War is a racket ISBN: 0922915865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780922915866 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10990.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case-studies it investigates the applicability of the term to a wide range of historical settings. The contributors show how past understandings of the term were often very different from (even in some respects the exact opposite of) those held today.
