Smedley Butler Hired Muscle

The book Smedley Butler Hired Muscle tells the story of the political conspiracy against U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. In 1935, the United States was a world power and the political opposition viewed Roosevelt as a socialist and communist. While the government tried to subsidize the poor with gold, this scheme failed, and the CIA and military were forced to pay huge sums of money to sabotage the president's election. The FBI and other government agencies were sent to investigate the case.