TY - BOOK AU - Guerrero,Leon Ma AU - Quirino,Carlos ED - National Historical Commission (Philippines), TI - The first Filipino: a biography of Jose Rizal SN - 9789715383332 AV - DS 675.8 G54 2012 PY - 2021/// CY - Manila, Philippines PB - National Historical Commission of the Philippines KW - Rizal, José, KW - RIZAL, JOSE KW - HEROES KW - PHILIPPINES KW - BIOGRAPHY KW - FAST KW - Biographies KW - fast N1 - "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 ER -