After four years, I’m finally nearing the end of writing my book about Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler and the making and breaking of America’s global empire. That means I happen to be working intensively on one of the wildest and most consequential chapters of the Fighting Quaker’s life right now: the time he stopped an honest-to-God fascist coup to overthrow…
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