TY - BOOK AU - Guerrero, Leon Ma. TI - The First Filipino : : the award-winning biography of Jose Rizal SN - 9789719341871 AV - DS 675.8R6 .G84 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Manila, Philippines PB - Guerrero Publishing KW - RIZAL, JOSE, 1861-1896 N1 - 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 N2 - The First Filipino also took a stand - an unpopular one - in favor of the controversial retraction of Rizal ER -