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.