![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That man, standing lonely astride the lens-shaped center of a peculiar Venn diagram, has the unlikely name of Smedley Darlington Butler. Smedley Butler was the tip of the spear in democracy-thwarting invasions and occupations beginning in 1898 whose beneficiaries included the banker J.P. Jai depuis écrit deux livres, The Big Truck That Went By : How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, qui traite du tremblement de terre, et, plus récemment, Gangsters of Capitalism : Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of Americas Empire, qui comprend deux chapitres sur loccupation américaine d. Among those, there is probably only a single person who will be discovered almost exclusively by two generally nonoverlapping groups: avid readers of the corpus of Noam Chomsky, and members of the Marine Corps. ![]() They are most likely to be encountered, if they are encountered at all, in the institutions that often engage the attention of young people between the ages of 18 and 22. But there is also a group of people who have not passed into national legend, and perhaps whose lives are not considered fit to explain to children. Having lied about his age when he was 16 to join the fight in Cuba against the Spanish empire in the. There are some figures whose place in the story of the American past is so central that schoolchildren cannot help but know them: George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln, or Rosa Parks. Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated U.S. I have a review in the January/February issue of The New Republic of Jonathan Katz’s biography/travelogue of Smedley Butler, a figure of long fascination to many and totally obscure to others. ![]()
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