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Maverick Marine

Maverick Marine
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 455
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ISBN-10 : 9780813146263
ISBN-13 : 0813146267
Rating : 4/5 (267 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Maverick Marine by : Hans Schmidt

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 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Traces Butler’s stormy career . . . As pure biography, Maverick Marine is a colorful story about a swashbuckling establishment-shaker.”—Publishers Weekly 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. This biography of Smedley Butler is “a sympathetic portrait of a Victorian officer-warrior who lost his way as he advanced in rank and his America and his Marine Corps changed after World War I” (The Journal of American History). “This long-awaited biography is as crisp as a David Brinkley commentary. Fact-packed and exquisitely documented.”—Naval Institute Proceedings


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