Book

Gangsters of Capitalism

Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Jonathan M. Katz

2022

St. Martin's Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

The Marine Who Turned Against U.S. Empire

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on January 11, 2022
Book Excerpt

The Plot Against American Democracy That Isn't Taught in Schools

How the authors of the Depression-era “Business Plot” aimed to take power away from FDR and stop his “socialist” New Deal.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Rolling Stone on January 1, 2022

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Robert De Niro as Gen. Dillenbeck, in "Amsterdam."

Did American Business Leaders Really Try to Overthrow the President, Like in "Amsterdam"?

How David O. Russell’s movie messes around with the story of the Business Plot.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Slate on October 8, 2022

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