TY - BOOK AU - Marcos, Ferdinand E., TI - Notes on the new society of the Philipines PY - 1973///];1973 CY - Manila PB - Marcos Foundation KW - Martial law KW - sears KW - Philippines N2 - First elected president in 1965, Marcos imposed martial law on the Philippines on September 21, 1972. He held onto power until 1986, when-in the aftermath of opposition leader Benigno Aquino's assassination and the election of his widow, Corazon, as president-he fled the country and entered exile in Hawaii. With Marcos' own autograph correction to the text on pages 7, 62. Occasional ink markings. Contemporary magazine clipping regarding Marcos' declaration of martial law laid in. Inscribed to Joseph Kingsbury-Smith, former national editor of and chief foreign writer for Hearst Newspapers. The series of interviews he (along with William Randolph Hearst, Jr. and Frank Conniff) conducted with Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956. --Baumanrarebooks.com ER -