Download or read book War is a Racket written by Smedley Butler and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.
Download or read book General Butler written by Christopher G. Pena and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope John Paul II has canonized more than 1,700 saints during his pontificate, leading some to criticize him as a "saint-making machine." Yet, perhaps John Paul realizes something that many of us have forgotten not only that our own goal should be sainthood, but also that we may require the inspiration of these Christian faithful to live out our own faith in the 21st century. In this collection of stories, readers will be introduced to a variety of familiar and unfamiliar saints canonized during the Great Jubilee Year 2000. They include inspiring stories from nearly every continent, including Francisco and Jacinta Marto of Fatima, 120 Chinese Martyrs, Sister Faustina Kowalska, Sister Katharine Drexel, 25 Mexican Martyrs and many more 164 in all. They include remarkable stories of children and adults, men and women, religious and lay people striving to live in holiness.
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Butler written by Elizabeth D. Leonard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively narrative as a man whose journey took him from childhood destitution to wealth and profound influence in state and national halls of power. Prize-winning biographer Elizabeth D. Leonard chronicles Butler's successful career in the law defending the rights of the Lowell Mill girls and other workers, his achievements as one of Abraham Lincoln's premier civilian generals, and his role in developing wartime policy in support of slavery's fugitives as the nation advanced toward emancipation. Leonard also highlights Butler's personal and political evolution, revealing how his limited understanding of racism and the horrors of slavery transformed over time, leading him into a postwar role as one of the nation's foremost advocates for Black freedom and civil rights, and one of its notable opponents of white supremacy and neo-Confederate resurgence. Butler himself claimed he was "always with the underdog in the fight." Leonard's nuanced portrait will help readers assess such claims, peeling away generations of previous assumptions and characterizations to provide a definitive life of a consequential man.
Download or read book Life and Public Services of Major General Butler the hero of New Orleans etc written by Benjamin Franklin BUTLER (Major General of Volunteers.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major General Benj F Butler written by Benjamin Franklin Butler and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Butler in New Orleans History of the administration of the department of the Gulf in 1862 with an account of the capture of New Orleans and a sketch of the previous career of the General civil and military Eleventh edition written by James PARTON and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maverick Marine written by Hans Schmidt and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.
Download or read book General Butler in New Orleans written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Butler written by Christopher G. Peña and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After only eight months in Louisiana, General Benjamin Butler departed New Orleans vilified by many Confederate politicians, their military leaders, the Southern press, and some citizens and foreign consuls living in the city. His eight-month stay was long enough for some Northern politicians who viewed him as a troublemaker. In the South, Butler was regarded as a thief, murderer, and beast. But was he those things, or simply a patriot who sought to punish the South for its treason? The answers lie within.
Download or read book Life and Public Services of Major General Butler Benjamin F Butler written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Butler in New Orleans written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smedley D Butler USMC written by Mark Strecker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of big business promoting war to profit materially was firmly in place by the time Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote about it in his anti-corporate pamphlets. This historical biography explores the life of Butler, a little-known American Marine who exposed an alleged fascist coup to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from office. This text is an exploration of the political issues of the first half of the twentieth century and an examination of a complicated, valiant man who shifted from Republican ideals to anti-corporate, left-wing populism.
Download or read book Private and Official Correspondence of Gen Benjamin F Butler written by Benjamin Franklin Butler and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private and Official Correspondence of Gen Benjamin F Butler During the Period of the Civil War written by Benjamin Franklin Butler and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Hero written by Samuel J. Martin and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Matthew Calbraith Butler led a most interesting life. His cavalry service during the Civil War saw him rise from regimental captain to major general in command of a division. He began the war with Jeb Stuart and participated in all of his early campaigns. Butler was wounded in the battle at Brandy Station and lost his foot as a result, but he returned to duty and the battles outside of Richmond in 1864, then hurried South to resist Sherman's advance into South Carolina. Unlike many other Confederate generals, Butler remained influential after the War. He served in the U.S. Senate for eighteen years, oversaw the end of Reconstruction in South Carolina, and was a major general during the Spanish-American War.
Download or read book General Butler in New Orlean written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Butler in New Orleans written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
