Ebook: War Is a Racket: the Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction by Jesse Ventura; War Is a Racket; Speeches:; Memorial Day Speech (1931); Memorial Day Speech (1933); Discovering America (1939); The War in Europe (Undated); Avoiding the War in the Pacific by Attending to our own Business (1939); Concerning Law Enforcement (Undated); Veterans' Rights (Undated); Radio Addresses:; Address from October 11, 1939; Articles:; My Service with the Marines (Undated); Dictatorship? (Undated); The Peace Racket (Undated); Let's Quit Kidding Ourselves (Undated); America's Veteran Problem (1936).;War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Darlington Butler. In these works, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech, "War Is a Racket." The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version that was published in 1935, now republished with a foreword by.