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The forbidden book : the Philippine-American War in political cartoons by Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, Helen Toribio is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Art. Asian & Asian American Studies. Filipino American Studies. Co-authored by Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, and Helen Toribio. THE FORBIDDEN BOOK uses over 200 political cartoons from 1898 to 1906 to chronicle a little known war between the United States and the Philippines. The war saw the deployment of 126,000 U.S. troops, lasted more than 15 years and killed hundreds of thousands of Filipinos beginning in February 1899. The book's title comes from a 1900 Chicago Chronicle cartoon of the same name showing then-President William McKinley putting a lock on a book titled "True History of the War in the Philippines." Today, very few Americans know about the brutal suppression of Philippine independence or the anti-war movement led at that time by the likes of writer Mark Twain, peace activist Jane Addams, journalist Joseph Pulitzer, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, labor leader Samuel Gompers, and Moorfield Storey, first president of the NAACP. The book reveals how the public was misled in the days leading to the war, shows illustrations of U.S. soldiers using the infamous "water cure" torture (today referred to as "waterboarding"), and describes a highly publicized

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Author

Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, Helen Toribio

Publisher

T'Boli Publishing and Distribution

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780996351744

Category

nonfiction

Rating

4.48 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14