30 Books on Martial Law History for the Filipino

by BM

1. Waltzing with a Dictator by Raymond Bonner
2. Some Are Smarter Than Others by Ricardo L. Manapat
3. Impossible Dream: The Marcoses, the Aquinos, and the Unfinished Revolution by Sandra Burton
4. Conference on the Legacies of the Marcos Dictatorship
5. The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos by Primitivo Mijares (read/download for free here)
6. How Democracy was Lost: A Political Diary of the Constitutional Convention of 1971-1972 by Augusto Caesar Espiritu
7. O Susana! The Untold Stories of Martial Law in Davao edited by Macario D. Tiu
8. Living and Dying: In Memory of 11 Ateneo de Manila Martial Law Activists by Cristina Jayme Montiel
9. Lorena by Pauline Mari Hernando
10. Macli-ing Dulag Kalinga Chief Defender of the Cordillera by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo
11. Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo and Susan Quimpo
12. Martial Law Diary and Other Papers by Danilo Vizmanos
13. Contested Democracy and the Left in the Philippines After Marcos by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
14. First Quarter Storm
15. To Suffer Thy Comrades by Robert Francis B. Garcia
16. Tibak Rising: Activism in the Days of Martial Law by Ferdinand C. Llanes
17. Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats by Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem
18. Reportage on the Marcoses by Quijano de Manila
19. Remembering/Rethinking EDSA by JPaul S. Manzanilla and Caroline S. Hau
20. Highlights of Philippine History by Maria Felisa Syjuco Tan
21. An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines by Alfred W. McCoy
22. Nation, Self and Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology by Randolf S. David
23. Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor by Wataru Kusaka
24. Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture by Caroline S. Hau
25. Ferdinand E. Marcos : itinadhana sa kadakilaan by Anacleto I Dizon
26. The Filipino Ideology by Ferdinand Marcos
27. Marcos’ Return: A Challenge to All Filipinos by Reynaldo T. Fajardo
28. Demokrasya: Rebolusyon ng ating panahon by Ferdinand Marcos
29. Martial Law (Looking Back #15) by Ambeth R. Ocampo
30. Dekada ’70 by Lualhati Bautista

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