Reinventing Marcos (2nd ed.)

Marcos died a dictator. But today, on social media, Marcos is a hero. President Ferdinand E. Marcos held power for 21 years and lost power in four days. What happened and why is recounted in this memoir by Keith Dalton, a decade-long former foreign correspondent in the Philippines. He writes of a ruthless and repressive dictatorship - responsible for more than 100,000 deaths, imprisonments, torture, and 'disappearances'. Through despotism, nepotism, and corruption, Marcos built an empire of gree