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‘Honor in the Dust’ by Gregg Jones

Examining America’s turn-of-the-century imperialist aspirations

By Roger K. Miller

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 24, 2012

Gregg Jones opens “Honor in the Dust’’ with a prologue describing the “waterboarding’’ of Philippine rebel Joveniano Ealdama by American interrogators in November of 1900. The technique, slying christened the ‘’water cure’’ by the Americans, is a continuous thread in the central theme of “Honor in the Dust,’’ which is the national debate at the time over whether the United States was right to seek an empire and whether it was doing it in an honorable manner

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