{"product_id":"war-is-a-racket-paperback","title":"War is a Racket - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSmedley D. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2024 Reprint of the 1935 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Butler was a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he 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 as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, who wrote Butler's oral autobiography, praised Butler's \"moral as well as physical courage\". Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is divided into five chapters: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e War is a racket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Who makes the profits?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Who pays the bills?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How to smash this racket!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To hell with war!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt contains this summary: War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of very many. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 62\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751461683488,"sku":"9781684228737","price":7.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8b909600c73c7bff4aac4f7b94044fb9.webp?v=1779973718","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/war-is-a-racket-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}