Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator (The Asian American Experience) - Softcover

Buch 11 von 34: Asian American Experience

Fuentecilla, Jose V.

 
9780252079122: Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator (The Asian American Experience)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252079124 ISBN 13: 9780252079122
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, Jose V. Fuentecilla describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as the overseas arm of the opposition to help return their country to democracy.
 
A member of one of the major U.S.-based anti-Marcos movements, Fuentecilla tells the story of how small groups of Filipino exiles--short on resources and shunned by some of their compatriots--arrived and survived in the United States during the 1970s, overcame fear, apathy, and personal differences to form opposition organizations after Marcos's imposition of martial law, and learned to lobby the U.S. government during the Cold War. In the process, he draws from multiple hours of interviews with the principal activists, personal files of resistance leaders, and U.S. government records revealing the surveillance of the resistance by pro-Marcos White House administrations. The first full-length book to detail the history of U.S.-based opposition to the Marcos regime, Fighting from a Distance provides valuable lessons on how to persevere against a well-entrenched opponent.

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A native of the Philippines, Jose V. Fuentecilla emigrated to the United States in the 1960s. He has lived and worked as a journalist and editor in New York City.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252079124
ISBN 13 
9780252079122
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Anzahl der Seiten
162
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