The first Filipino : the award-winning biography of Jose Rizal /

Guerrero, Leon Ma.

The first Filipino : the award-winning biography of Jose Rizal / Leon Ma. Guerrero - edition published 2010 - Manila, Philippines : Guerrero Publishing, c2012 - xxiv, 539 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Something to remember -- The "Principales" -- A Child of good family -- Religion, race, and rhetoric -- University life -- A hidden purpose -- A voyage to a new world -- A student's diagnosis -- An advocate's trials -- The nostalgic historian -- The prophetic journalist -- A politician without ambition -- The reluctant revolutionary -- A choice of islands -- Climax and anti-climax -- A commerce in butterflies -- A race with revolution -- A leader overtaken -- The hounds of heaven -- An end and a beginning.

The First Filipino also took a stand - an unpopular one - in favor of the controversial retraction of Rizal.

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RIZAL, JOSE, 1861-1896

DS 675.8R6 .G84 2012