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My MacArthur: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Cindy Fazzi (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He’s fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.
MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though he’s breaking numerous taboos. She reciprocates his affection because he could open doors for her financially struggling family. That MacArthur happens to be handsome compensates for the fact that he’s as old as her father.
When MacArthur is appointed the U.S. Army chief of staff, he becomes the youngest four-star general and one of America’s most powerful men. Out of hubris, he takes Isabel with him to America without marrying her.
Amid the backdrop of the Great Depression, MacArthur and Isabel’s relationship persists like “a perilous voyage on turbulent waters,” as she describes it. In 1934, after four years of relationship, MacArthur leaves Isabel for fear of a political scandal.
The general goes on to become the iconic hero of World War II, liberating the Philippines and rebuilding Japan. Isabel drifts in Los Angeles unable to muster the courage to return to Manila. As he ascends to his special place in American history, she plunges into a dark place, ultimately meeting a tragic death.
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Cindy Fazzi is a Filipino-American writer and former Associated Press reporter. She has worked as a journalist in the Philippines, Taiwan, and the United States. My MacArthur is her literary debut. She writes romance novels under the pen name Vina Arno. Her first romance book, In His Corner, was published by Lyrical Press in 2015. Her second romance novel, Finder Keeper of My Heart, was published by Painted Hearts Publishing in 2018. Her short stories have been published in Snake Nation Review, Copperfield Review, and SN Review.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07HR4W8BP
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sand Hill Review Press; 1st edition (Nov. 1 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1154 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1937818969
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Cindy Fazzi is a Filipino American writer and former Associated Press reporter. She has worked as a journalist in the Philippines, Taiwan, and the United States. She's the author of MULTO, a contemporary thriller published by Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, in 2023. Her historical novel, MY MACARTHUR, was published by Sand Hill Review Press in 2018. Her articles have appeared in the Daily Beast, Electric Literature, Forbes, and Writer’s Digest.

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anne
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written historical fiction with a little of everything.
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018
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One of my favorite genres is historical fiction. Cindy Fazzi does a fantastic job of recapturing the society, culture, people, and political climate of both the Philippines and U.S. during MacArthur's reign from the 1930s through the late 1950s. I started this book thinking I had a fairly good knowledge of General Douglas MacArthur. It turns out there is so much more about the man and that era that I was unaware of. Cindy clearly spent an extraordinary amount of time researching, writing, and fine-tuning this book. There is just the right mix of historical events and story to make it an enjoyable read. What stood out the most to me was how all the characters came alive. They were easy to get to know and they all provided a genuine look at all facets of human nature.
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C. Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great true love story told against a dramatic historical background
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2019
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My MacArthur is far from most people’s idea of the hero General Douglas MacArthur. And most of us have never heard of Isabel Rosario Cooper. Cindy Fazzi has done an amazing job of bringing to life a forgotten episode in MacArthur’s life and at the same time giving us an insight into a world whose social mores and prejudices informed out own, as we rebelled against them. Although told as a novel, with much that has had to be imagined by the author, she has meticulously researched the historical background and events. Fazzi unfolds her tale with all the nerve-wracking inevitability of a Greek tragedy. We know how it must surely end, yet hope against hope it will not. And as in all good drama, the protagonists are neither good nor bad. They are realistically and sensitively portrayed as that same mix of both that makes us all and so makes us able to identify with them. The mature MacArthur fell headlong for a beautiful woman, a young girl really, more than 30 years his junior, from an exotic foreign background. She fell for a handsome and commanding older man in the General’s uniform of a powerful western nation. Both parties were flattered and overwhelmed in perhaps equal measure. Both the age difference, and the cultural differences were scandals at the time, but they ignored them.
As the story, which begins in the Philippines in 1930 and ends in the USA in 1964, unfolds against a background of social unrest, the pre-war Great Depression, global war and the post war years, we follow the fortunes of MacArthur and Isabel, whose lives, linked for a while, follow very different trajectories as social and political realities pile pressure on their relationship. It is a gripping tale and one that stays with you long after the last page has been turned. But it is more than that. It is a record of an era. A momentous era in our recent history. An era which is still with us in the memories of our parents and grandparents. An era which still shapes our world today.
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Ana Brazil
4.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoyable story of two highly ambitious people!
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
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4.5 stars! I love stories about ambitious women in history, and My MacArthur was totally satisfying.
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Vida
5.0 out of 5 stars Romance and History
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2020
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The research put into this novel is commendable. It’s like the author breathed life into the historical books on MacArthur by making him more human, more like us - prone to the follies of life. And Belle, the love of MacArthur, was just as real as me!!!

I am in awe of the skill Cindy Fazzi has in weaving this novel. She was my classmate in elementary and high school back in the Philippines. Kudos to her!!!

I look forward to reading more books from her.

- Ingrid
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Harriet B.
5.0 out of 5 stars MY MAC ARTHUR by CINDY FAZZI
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2022
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Overall, this is a clear, concise, and well-written novel. WELL DONE and GOOD JOB CINDY FAZZI - I love MacArthur ! I am looking forward to your forthcoming books next year. And I would strongly recommend your novel to all my friends / family etc.
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