The first Filipino : a biography of Jose Rizal /
Leon Ma. Guerrero.
- New edition.
- xxiv, 609 pages ; 23 cm.
"Awarded first prize in the Rizal Biography Contest held under the auspices of the José Rizal National Centennial Commission in 1961."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 552-587) and index.
Part I : Something to remember -- The "Principales" -- A Child of good family -- Religion, race, and rhetoric -- University life -- A hidden purpose -- A voyage to a new world -- Part II : A student's teachings -- A novelist's diagnosis -- An advocate's trials -- The nostalgic historian -- The prophetic journalist -- A politician without ambition -- The reluctant revolutionary -- Part III : A choice of islands -- Climax and anti-climax -- A commerce in butterflies -- A race with revolution -- A leader overtaken -- The hounds of heaven -- An end and a beginning.