Philippines free press.

Cover title. Spine title: 1900-2000 the Philippine century

There could be a better history of the nearly one hundred years just passed. There might be deeper analyses with the benefit of long hindsight. We doubt there could be better writing and a sharper perception about those times. The Free Press's greatest causes remain today's most pressing concerns. The fact is there nothing better than what you are holding. Here is the last nearly 100 years as observed by a weekly that had no agenda or special interest than the pursuit of truth. Beyond facts and lost to memory and never recaptured in the general histories, there is in this collection the changing tone of a national life, starting on a hopeful note and ending with the profound disbelief that things will ever change for the better. You will learn in these pages that only the scale of the venality has changed and discover that old money once was crony. Nothing on this scale has been attempted before. It needed the energy and talents of its youthful editors and a hundred years of history written on the wing. This is not history to be read but relived. (Foreword by TLL, Jr. 6)