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008			030905s1999 000 0 eng d
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040			_aAEA _cAEA _erda
050			_aDS 685 _b.P538 1999
245		0	_aPhilippines free press.
264			_aManila : _bLR Publications, _c[1999];copyright 1999
300			_a318 pages : _billustrations (chiefly color) _c35 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_aCover title. Spine title: 1900-2000 the Philippine century
520			_aThere 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)
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