General Butler's screed crosses all ideological boundaries. Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is GeneralSmedley Butler's frank speech describing his role as a soldier as nothing morethan serving as a puppet for big-business interests. The introduction discusseswhy General Butler went against the corporate war machine and how he exposed afascist coup d'etat plot against President Franklin Roosevelt. Widelyappreciated and referenced by left- and right-wingers alike, this is an extraordinaryargument against war - more relevant now than ever. This elegant new edition includes additional photos from thenotorious 1932 anti-war book The Horror of It by Frederick A. Barber and twonever-before-published anti-interventionist essays by General Butler.