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“A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbulent centuries.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America’s imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, examining how we have sought to remake the Philippines “in our image,” an experiment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunderstanding.
 
“Stanley Karnow has written the ultimate book—brilliant, panoramic, engrossing—about American behavior overseas in the twentieth century.”—The Boston Sunday Globe
 
“A page-turning story and authoritative history.”—The New York Times
 
“Perhaps

In Our Image

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/03/1990
      ISBN13: 9780345328168, 978-0345328168
      ISBN10: 0345328167

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      “A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbulent centuries.”—San Francisco Chronicle
       
      Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America’s imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, examining how we have sought to remake the Philippines “in our image,” an experiment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunderstanding.
       
      “Stanley Karnow has written the ultimate book—brilliant, panoramic, engrossing—about American behavior overseas in the twentieth century.”—The Boston Sunday Globe
       
      “A page-turning story and authoritative history.”—The New York Times
       
      “Perhaps

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