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Empire's mistress, starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña, 1973-

Synopsis:

Isabel Rosario Cooper was a vaudville and film actress, who was also the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. This biography documents the actress' life as she moved from the Philippines to Washington, D.C., where she died penniless. The author goes beyond biography as she examines the time in which Cooper lived that was a part of American colonialism in the Philippines.


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