Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. imperialism remain a vital force shaping politics and culture across the globe. In doing so, Katz reveals how memories of U.S. Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled the world recreating Butler’s journeys and pored over the personal letters of the Marine, his comrades, and his family on Philadelphia’s Main Line. He said "war is a racket" and declared: “I was a racketeer for capitalism."
Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war and big business. From his days as a teenage recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and invading and occupying Nicaragua, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Wherever the flag went, the "Fighting Quaker” went―in nearly every major overseas conflict from 1898 until the eve of World War II. Bestselling books were written about him.
Was the most celebrated warfighter of his time.
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