"A way to tell the story of how the United States operates in the world": An interview with Jonathan M. Katz, author of <em>Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire</em>
Through recounting Butler’s life and military career, Katz offers a brief but indelible history of the emergence of American imperialism in the first decades of the 20th century.