Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 25 on 25

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 25 on 25In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicua Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's biographya failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington DC to Hollywood, where

So why didn't he choose fiction

“MacArthur Fever” explores a young girl’s fevered yearning induced by her first encounter with ice

Edited by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

it has been one of the most important supporters of Philippine literature

with plaintive tones marked equally by pain

the Japanese occupation and the annihilation of the city by American saturation bombardment

ISBN: 971569235-4

and providing himself up to standard

magazines and other periodicals (including student publications) as they can find

odes to migration

Litton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University

Paperback: 304 pages