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Radio War Nerd EP 359 — Smedley Butler & American Empire, feat. Jonathan M. Katz

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The Quaker in the History of Anti-Imperialism

Butler comes from a straight up upper class family, old Quaker family basically came over with William Penn just after his father's a congressman. And he goes to a private school for boys on the grounds of Harvard for college is still there. So it tells a little bit about his, where he comes from, his, his background. He's a very unlikely future sort of hero of anti-imperialism, as for sure. Yes.

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