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008			000503s1995 000 0 eng d
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050			_aPL 6142 _b.Oc1 1995
100			_aOcampo, Ambeth R. _934888
245		0	_aMabini's ghost / _cAmbeth R. Ocampo.
264			_aPasig City : _bAnvil Publishing, _c[1995];copyright 1995
300			_axiv,227 pages : _billustrations _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aThe cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of academe, populated for so long by highbrow scholars, and dyspeptic textbook writers. He has brought it into the full light of everyday life, into the coffeeshop, the bus stop, and the family reunion. He has made of history something amusing, entertaining, to be passed on like a piece of neighborhood gossip. Through his newspaper columns and articles, the latest of which are collected in the present volume, he has given life to the dry bones of the past. He has given flesh and color to the marble and bronze monuments to which the ponderous adulation of analysts and politicians had condemned our heroes. Ocampo has managed to turn their lives into something as immediate as newspaper headline, as relevant as rapper's song.
650			_aHistorical literature, Philippine _2sears _939830
942			_cFIL
999			_c45137 _d45137