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Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

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"A well-researched, engaging narrative of the Filipino exile movement in the United States to topple the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. Fuentecilla is gifted with a journalistic eye for human-interest stories of resistance and activism that will keep readers enthralled."--Augusto Fauni Espiritu, author of Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals
"A book that triggers memories—some good and some not so bracing."--The FilAm

Fighting from a Distance

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    A Paperback / softback by Jose V. Fuentecilla

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      Publisher University of Illinois Press
      Published 18 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780252079122
      978-0252079122
      ISBN-10 0252079124

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

      Trade Review
      "A well-researched, engaging narrative of the Filipino exile movement in the United States to topple the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. Fuentecilla is gifted with a journalistic eye for human-interest stories of resistance and activism that will keep readers enthralled."--Augusto Fauni Espiritu, author of Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals
      "A book that triggers memories—some good and some not so bracing."--The FilAm

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