| Description |
xxv, 462 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Digging a well in Kansulay -- 2. A history told by foreigners -- 3. Ferdinand Marcos makes a good start -- 4. The Second World War -- 5. The haunting of Kansulay -- 6. Imelda Romualdez, too, makes a good start -- 7. Communists, nationalists, and America's Boy -- 8. The Marcoses of Malacanang -- 9. Villagers and elites -- 10. Love-nests, leftists and riots -- 11. Martial law -- 12. The politics of fantasy -- 13. EDSA and after -- 14. First Couple redux -- 15. Kansulay meets Babylon |
| Summary |
"Except for the three-year Japanese occupation, Philippine policy largely followed the dictates of Washington; to this end, as this chronicle shows, the United States nurtured certain homegrown politicians. Of the many 'America's Boys' selected, none rivaled the high-profile glamour of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. Though the couple usually did America's bidding, they could not survive the savage media blitz that accompanied their decline. Yet for all the coverage, the US press failed to understand the deeply complicated relationship between the Marcoses and ordinary Filipinos."--BOOK JACKET |
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"Hamilton-Paterson sets his narrative in the context of the wider Asian tragedies of the Marcos era: the vast cruelties of the war in Vietnam, the rise of the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia, and the transformation of every local issue into a drama of the Cold War. His intimate knowledge of the Philippines allows him to view events in the capital, Manila, from the apparently changeless, but in fact complex and shifting, reality of the remote provinces. His peasants and fishermen, brought to life movingly and unsentimentally, offer startling truths about the high cost of dictatorship and American strategic arrogance."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published : [S.l.] : Granta Books, 1998 |
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"A John Macrae book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [442]-446) and index |
| Subject |
Marcos, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin), 1917-1989.
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| SUBJECT |
Philippines -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100796 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Philippines -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116577
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Philippines.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100432
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| LC no. |
99027569 |
| ISBN |
0805061185 hb. alkaline paper |
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