America's Boy
by James Hamilton-Paterson (9781862072824)

Ferdinand had reinvented himself as a matchless fighter against the Japanese, and Time magazine hailed him as a hero. People were happy to believe this, even those who knew it was a lie: he was the strongman, the dictator welcomed by Lyndon B. Johnson, Nixon and Reagan at the White House America's Boy. He and Imelda were surrounded by hard-faced soldiers as well as by courtiers endowed with magical powers. Everything was at once farcical and serious, an exercise in brute power and a parody of it; their lives intertwined politics and fantasy.
For twenty years they dominated the Philippines. In the end, a 'democratic revolution' replaced them with Cory Aquino, a feudal landowner. Nothing changed. The world applauded, and the shadow-play went on.
The author has gathered astonishing information from senators, cronies and rivals of the Marcoses; and from family members, including Imelda. This is a highly original autobiography of a dictatorship a moving, passionate and often very funny book.

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