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In the summer of 1934, a group of prominent Wall Street financiers offered $18,000 in cash to a retired Marine Corps general if he would lead a paramilitary force of a half million men to march on Washington, D.C. Their objective? To overthrow the United States government and replace Franklin Roosevelt with a dictator.General Smedley Butler refused the money, along with an offer from the heir to the Singer sewing machine dynasty to pay off his mortgage if he joined their cause. Money was not his concern. The U.S. Constitution was.Butler had sworn allegiance to that Constitution thirty-six years before as a young lieutenant about to ship off to Cuba to fight in the Spanish-American War. Since then he had compiled one of the most spectacular records in the history of American arms. One of only nineteen men to ever earn two Medals of Honor, Butler became a general at age 37, a year before his contemporary Douglas MacArthur did.AMERICAN RENEGADE paints a vivid portrait of this little remembered warrior, set against the backdrop of the extraordinary times he lived through. Appointed by President Coolidge to serve as Philadelphia police chief in 1923, Butler immediately ran afoul of big

Author

Nate Braden.

Published

2009

Language

EN