Lead Review

  • Book: America’s Boy: the Marcoses and the Philippines
  • Location: The Philippines
  • Author: James Hamilton-Paterson

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Content

If you had to choose just one book to provide political insights and revelations on the history of the Philippines, James-Hamilton Paterson’s “America’s Boy” would be the one to go for. Yet it is far more than an outstanding history. It provides authentic pictures of everday  life, both town and village, and so measures the mentality of the Filipino. It ranks as the best tourist-primer I know.

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