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Gangsters of Capitalism audiobook
- By: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrator: Adam Barr
- Category: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Political Science
- Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 18, 2022
- Language: English
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Gangsters of Capitalism Audiobook Summary
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.
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 Guantanamo 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 Guantanamo, 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.
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Gangsters of Capitalism Audiobook Narrator
Adam Barr is the narrator of Gangsters of Capitalism audiobook that was written by Jonathan M. Katz
Jonathan Myerson Katz received the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for reporting from Haiti. His first book, The Big Truck That Went By, was shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and won the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and the WOLA/Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. His work appears in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. Katz was a New America national fellow in the Future of War program and received a fellowship from the Logan Nonfiction Program. He lives with his wife and daughter in Charlottesville, Virginia.
About the Author(s) of Gangsters of Capitalism
Jonathan M. Katz is the author of Gangsters of Capitalism
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Gangsters of Capitalism Full Details
| Narrator | Adam Barr |
| Length | 14 hours 46 minutes |
| Author | Jonathan M. Katz |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | January 18, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781250839541 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Gangsters of Capitalism is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Political Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Gangsters of Capitalism is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250839541.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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