Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Book Overview

In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicu a 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 biography--a failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014008
• ISBN13: 9781478014003
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"