OUR MILITARY CHAOS: The Truth About Defense
Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. 202, x pp. 12mo, brown heathered cloth with brown stamped spine lettering, navy topstain. Some offsetting around the edges of the endpapers, some light penciling to early pages, otherwise a very clean, sharp copy; DJ price clipped, tips worn with some loss, dampstain to spine tail. Villard was a regular contributor for the New York Evening Post and The Nation. He was a founder of the Anti-Imperialist League and an outspoken critic of American racism and segregation. In his words, he was 'radical on peace and war and on the Negro question; radical in our insistence that the United States stay at home and not go to war abroad and impose its imperialistic will upon Latin-American republics, often with great slaughter.' In this broadside against the grown military-industrial complex, Villard questions the need and even the possibility (given the distance) of war with Japan. He critiques the devotion of billions in spending to military projects with no explicit aims. And he warns of the elevation of the military as a road to Fascism. VERY GOOD / Very Good. Item #508778
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