Build or perish! : people power democracy : liberating America's first empire / Abe N. Margallo.

At head of title: Red's book.

Originally published: Morrisville, NC : Lulu Press, c2003.

Expresses the motivation and sentiments of a dreamer who hopes to frame the proper issues for a national debate on how to attain for the Filipinos what John Adams told Thomas Jefferson, a "revolution in the minds of the people and, perhaps, other peoples similarly situated. Seeks to tease America, in the light of 9/11 tragedy, into considering, the difficult task of dealing humbly, fairly and respectfully with the rest of the world and letting others go or be as best as they can be: and then before completing to remake the world in his image, subjecting himself to the ordeal of the mirror test to see if this self-apotheosis as the epitome of democracy and liberty has not been so contrived in Orwellian guise.