How long does it take to read In Our Image?
America's empire in the Philippines
In Our Image by Stanley Karnow takes about 9 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 3 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1989. 494 pages, about 135,850 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is an account of America's imperial experience in the Philippines from 1898 to 1946. Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History, has now written an enthralling account of an almost forgotten subject: America's imperial experience in the Philippines. Panoramic in scope, profound in its perceptions and compassionate in its human portraits, In Our Image is an exciting, heroic, tragic, colorful and often comic narrative drawn from many hitherto unpublished documents as well as hundreds of interviews with American and Filipino participants. Above all, its brilliant descriptions and analysis of this important chapter in American history holds lessons for the present and future. No other book on the subject is as comprehensive. - Jacket flap.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Politics andgovernment, Arms control, Foreign relations, Defenses
