[act-ma] 6/05 CCB “Gangsters of Capitalism” with Jonathan M. Katz

[Charlie Welch]

    “Gangsters of Capitalism” with Jonathan M. Katz

Community Church of Boston
Sunday June 6th 11 AM

Smedley Butler was the most celebrated war-fighter of his time. 
Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever 
the flag went, the "Fighting Quaker” went in nearly every major overseas 
conflict from 1898 until the eve of World War II. Jonathan Myerson Katz 
traveled the world recreating Butler’s journeys. In doing so, Katz 
reveals how memories of U.S. imperialism remain a vital force shaping 
politics and culture across the globe. Gangsters of Capitalism: : 
Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s 
Empire tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have 
never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget.
• Jonathan Myerson Katz received the James Foley/Medill Medal for 
Courage in Journalism for reporting from Haiti. His first book, The Big 
Truck That Went By, was shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith 
Award for Nonfiction and won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan 
Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and the WOLA/Duke 
Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. His work appears in the 
New York Times, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. Katz was a New America 
national fellow in the Future of War program and received a fellowship 
from the Logan Nonfiction Program. He lives with his wife and daughter 
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Music by David Roth
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Photo: Smedley Butler poses with bulldogs on Armistice Day: Bill, 
Sergeant Thunder & Jiggs II as they watch the Football game at Franklin 
Field in Philadelphia between the Quantico Marines & the American Legion 
All Stars. From the P.J. Woods Collection (COLL/1502), Marine Corps 
Archives & Special Collections
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