| Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator Contributor(s): Fuentecilla, Jose V. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252037588 ISBN-13: 9780252037580 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Freedom - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - History | Asia - Southeast Asia |
| Dewey: 959.904 |
| LCCN: 2013005910 |
| Series: Asian American Experience (University of Illinois) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.88 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |