Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History

Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History

by Hans Schmidt
Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History

Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History

by Hans Schmidt

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Overview

Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813109572
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 07/23/1998
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 406,054
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years
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