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Fighting from a distance : how Filipino exiles helped topple a dictator / Jose V. Fuentecilla.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuentecilla, Jose V.
- Series:
- Asian American Experience
- The Asian American experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Filipinos--United States--History.
- Filipinos.
- Exiles--Political activity--United States.
- Exiles.
- Philippines--Politics and government--1973-1996.
- Philippines.
- Philippines--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Philippines.
- United States.
- Movement for a Free Philippines (Organization).
- Marcos, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin), 1917-1989.
- Marcos, Ferdinand E.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The first exiles : escaping from the homeland
- Rough landings : surviving the first years
- Into the land of the fearful : dread and apathy
- The big divide : differences hindering unity
- Martial law and beyond : how the dictator usurped power
- Early organizing : conflicting opposition groups
- Learning how to lobby : how the United States fought the exiles
- Down with rhetoric! : turning to radical means
- The war of words : winning hearts and minds
- Reviving the opposition : arrival of an exile hero
- Reviewing the decade : adding up the losses and wins
- "It's not all Greek to me" : bringing the fight to the homeland
- A man for many seasons : the leader who led the movement.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299483255
- 1299483259
- 9780252095092
- 025209509X
- OCLC:
- 841520471
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