War is a Racket
New York: Round Table Press, Inc., 1935.
First edition, first printing. [viii], 52 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, and light foxing to textblock edges. Ownership signature to front free endpaper, light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine panel light stains, light soiling, and edgewear.
Smedley Butler, the son of prominent Quakers, lied about his age to join the Marines in 1898. It was the beginning of a distinguished thirty-year career in which he fought in five wars and won two Congressional Medals of Honor. Butler resigned his commission in 1931 and published this book, which scandalized his former colleagues, as an offensive strike against war profiteering and interventionism.
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