{"product_id":"reinventing-marcos-from-dictator-to-hero","title":"Reinventing Marcos: From Dictator to Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarcos died a dictator. But today, on social media, Marcos is a hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresident 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDalton 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keith Dalton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398850134185,"sku":"9781764020954","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781764020954.jpg?v=1788064062","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/reinventing-marcos-from-dictator-to-hero","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}