Magsaysay : the people's president / Manuel F. Martinez ; edited by Nelson A. Navarro.

The biography of the great President Ramon Magsaysay deals with his astounding life in political, historical and personal terms. It goes from his miraculous survival as a child to his swashbuckling guerilla days to his stirring moments as a world-renowned charismatic figure who "blazed like a meteor across Philippine skies." He was generally reffered to as the " Man of the Masses," owing to his popularity among the common man-from the lowliest worker in the city slums to the humblest of peasants in far-flung barrios. Yet he became a celebrated figure who thrilled the imagination of the high, rich and mighty of the Free World. The United States government even issued a postage stamp in his honor to recognize his singular feat as the first, and in his time, the only leader to vanquish a communism had not tasted a single defeat, was advancing everywhere in the world and terrifiying whole population in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. But it was not what he did, but who and what he was when hewas alive that endeared him to the Filipino people. A few days after his death, the Philippines Free Press, the leading political journal at the time declared that "there will never be one like him-never, never, never, never."