The author is all over the place. I thought I was reading a book about Smedley Butler in the early 1900s but the author spent more time talking about identity politics in 2020.
The author is all over the place. I thought I was reading a book about Smedley Butler in the early 1900s but the author spent more time talking about identity politics in 2020.
I mostly found this book fascinating, but in the interview that the author gave that caused me to buy this book, he sold it as a history of a man who stoped a coup against FDR- that covers less than a chapter. The rest is the about the horrors of war and colonialism. Which is good to read and learn about, but I wanted more about the coup and Butler‘s anti-war activities. 3/5 stars read for a history of the USA‘s colonial wars.