At the time of his death in 1940, Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler was the most decorated marine in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a double winner of the Medal of Honor, and his book "War is a ...

Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket. Feral Press, 2003, 80 pages, $9.95. "I SPENT 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers.

OLD GIMLET EYE: ADVENTURES OF SMEDLEY D. BUTLER—as told to Lowell Thomas—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). Now that Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler has retired, the U. S. Marine Corps is not so often ...

In Lt. Gen. Smedley Butler’s book, “War is a Racket” he explained how wars were started and fought to support the wealthy industrialists who always profited from conflict, by securing government ...

Stein, Judith E., "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1993, pg. 196. "Horace Pippin," Washington, DC ...