{"product_id":"ferdinand-marcos-gordon-j-mackenzie-9798184629421","title":"Ferdinand Marcos: Power, Paranoia, Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFerdinand Marcos promised order, progress and national renewal. What he left behind was fear, debt, corruption, divided memory and one of the most contested political legacies in modern Asian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFerdinand Marcos: Power, Paranoia, Legacy tells the story of a gifted, ruthless and deeply ambitious leader who rose from provincial politics to the presidency of the Philippines, then reshaped the republic around his own survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcos was not a simple thug or fool. He was intelligent, disciplined, legally trained and politically brilliant. He understood image, memory, fear, patronage, law, family power and the emotional hunger for national greatness. That made him more dangerous, not less.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book follows Marcos from his early life in Ilocos Norte through his disputed wartime mythology, his rise through Congress and the Senate, his marriage to Imelda, his election to the presidency, the declaration of martial law, the creation of the New Society, the growth of crony capitalism, his relationship with the United States, the assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr., the People Power Revolution and the long battle over his legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt examines the central questions behind the Marcos era: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did a democratic politician become a dictator?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did martial law appeal to some Filipinos?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did development become a justification for repression?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat role did Imelda Marcos play in the theatre of power?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did money, fear, spectacle and foreign support sustain the regime?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does the Marcos legacy remain so politically powerful today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in a direct, readable style, Ferdinand Marcos: Power, Paranoia, Legacy is a historical account of ambition, authoritarianism, corruption, memory and the burden a dictator leaves behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a tribute. It is a warning about what happens when one man convinces himself that the country needs him more than it needs its institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon J. MacKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184629421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d","brand":"Gordon J. MacKenzie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997853724927,"sku":"9798184629421","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ferdinand-marcos-gordon-j-mackenzie-9798184629421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}