Season 9 · Episode 3
Haiti, Smedley Butler, and the Rise of American Empire
Deconstructed · The Intercept
January 22, 20221h 27m
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Show Notes
“I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism." So declared famed Marine Corps officer Smedley Butler in 1935, at the end of a long career spent blazing a path for American interests in Cuba, Nicaragua, China, The Philippines, Panama, and Haiti. In a new book on Butler’s career, Gangsters of Capitalism, Jonathan Katz details Butler’s life and explains how it dovetails with the broader story of American empire at the turn of the century.
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