The Spanish history of the Philippines begins and ends with the friar. He was the most dangerous of men--one combining great power with a sense of devotion to his mission--a self-justified ruler of bodies and governor of sourls. Moreover, the friar would be a loyal Spaniard to the end, even if he were to be the last Spaniard in the Philippines. He, then, became the great antagonist of the first Filipino, Jose Rizal.
On this theme, Leon Ma. Guerrero has woven the latest, and undoubtedly the best, biography of the national hero of the Philippines, dr. Jose Rizal, who awakened the latent nationalism of his countrymen with his two incendiary novels and molded them into a homogenous and vigorous nation.
2021
634 pages
Paperback
