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"Except for the three-year Japanese occupation, Philippine policy largely followed the dictates of Washington; to this end, as this chronicle shows, the United States nurtured certain homegrown politicians. Of the many 'America's Boys' selected, none rivaled the high-profile glamour of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. Though the couple usually did America's bidding, they could not survive the savage media blitz that accompanied their decline. Yet for...

"When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case, an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan) and Jennifer's mother (Julita "Nanay" Laude), galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism." --