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Reinventing Marcos: From Dictator to Hero

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by Keith Dalton
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Availability:In StockContributor:Keith DaltonPublish date:5/19/2025Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalton BooksISBN-13:9781764020954ISBN-10:1764020952UPC:9781764020954Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Civil Rights, Political FreedomSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SC8JRGZTNA

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 greed until he was overthrown in a People Power revolution in 1986.

Decades after his death, Marcos has been 'reinvented' - mythologised and propagandised - by social media disinformation which claims it was a 'golden' age and Marcos was the nation's best-ever president. This false legacy helped Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. win the presidency in 2022. Dalton remembers an autocrat and a 'bloody' age when Marcos politically gutted and economically plundered the nation. Reinventing Marcos is his account of the 10 years he was there.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalton BooksISBN-13:9781764020954ISBN-10:1764020952UPC:9781764020954Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Civil Rights, Political FreedomSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SC8JRGZTNA
Dalton, Keith: - Keith was for 20 years a journalist and a foreign correspondent. Then, for another 20 years he was a speechwriter, a press secretary, and a communications manager. At 25, he left Australia and spent the next 12 years in Southeast Asia, principally in the Philippines where he reported for 10 radio stations and three newspapers. Keith reported extensively on the 21-year dictatorship of President Ferdinand E. Marcos which ended in a People Power revolution in 1986. Back in Australia, he spent a further three years covering Australian and Pacific news for four international broadcasters. For 11 years, he was the Corporate Communications Manager for SBS, Australia's multilingual and multicultural national broadcaster.
Publisher: Dalton Books

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2nd Revised Edition

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Keith Dalton

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Keith Dalton

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