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Imelda
  • Author : Katherine Ellison
  • Release Date : 01 April 2005
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 332
  • ISBN 13 : 9780595349227
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Book Description: A major biography by a Pulitzer Price-winning writer of one of the most complex and fascinating women of our time. Book description: "Katherine Ellison has a reporter's zeal for finding the story within the story. Her book is full of surprises." David Haward Bain, author of "Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines." "The research here is superb, the writing is gripping and graceful," The Washington Post. ..".Proves once again that absolute power corrupts absolutely...An absorbing biography, likely to be in demand," Library Journal.

Imelda

Imelda

Author : Katherine Ellison
Publisher : iUniverse
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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A major biography by a Pulitzer Price-winning writer of one of the most complex and fascinating women of our time. Book description: "Katherine Ellison has a reporter's zeal for finding the story within the story. Her book is full of surprises." David Haward Bain, author of "Sitting in Darkness: Americans ...

Imelda

Imelda

Author : John Herdman
Publisher : Leamington Books
Genre : Fiction
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John Herdman's masterpiece of the modern Scottish Gothic appears in print from Leamington Books, with a new introduction from the author. Black humour and even blacker lives collide in a tale of love and murder on an old Borders family estate. In a grotesque story told from two perfectly contrasting ...

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos

Author : Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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In 1966, Imelda Marcos was "e;rich, young, and beautiful, an Asian Jacqueline Kennedy."e; Years later, Benigno Aquino would call her "e;another Evita Peron,"e; referring to her ruthless ambition and seemingly insatiable desire for wealth and power. By 1986, she was in exile in Hawaii, having been driven from ...

They Called Her Imelda

They Called Her Imelda

Author : Bernard L. Satterwhite Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Genre : Fiction
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Alonzo Alston is a successful award winning best-selling author in the science-fiction and fantasy genres. Unfortunately, Alonzo has run head-on into that dreaded "wall" most writers eventually hit. It isn't long before Alonzo decides he needs a well deserved vacation in order to prime that creative pump and get those ...

Untold Story of Imelda Marcos

Untold Story of Imelda Marcos

Author : Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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First released in 1969, during a time of great uncertainty for the Philippines, this unauthorized biography of one of the most intriguing women in the world was banned in her own country. For writing it, Carmen Pedrosa, with her family, was exiled to London for 20 years.Despite that, The Untold Story ...

Imelda Romualdez Marcos

Imelda Romualdez Marcos

Author : Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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This book contains the story of the trial and acquittal of Imelda Romualdez Marcos in a New York court in 1990. Her media image of being "e;one of the richest women in the world"e; and coming from one of the poorest countries was the scandal. This book discusses some ...

Imelda and Other Stories

Imelda and Other Stories

Author : John Herdman
Publisher : Small PressDistribution
Genre : English fiction - Short stories
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What is the secret surrounding the birth of Imelda's child? This dark novella presents us with two contradictory accounts of events which lead to madness and death for the scions of a genteel Border family. The reader is invited to decide which testimony, if either, is to be relied upon. ...

American Cardinal Reader Book 2

American Cardinal Reader Book 2

Author : Edith M. McLaughlin,Adrian T. Curtis
Publisher : Neumann Press
Genre : Religion
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These great and highly-praised American Catholic Readers, originally published by Benziger Bros. in the 1930s, were the mainstay and backbone of the Catholic parochial schools during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. They still form part of the core curriculum for homeschoolers and private schools lucky enough to have ...

Duran Duran Imelda Marcos and Me

Duran Duran Imelda Marcos and Me

Author : Lorina Mapa
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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A graphic memoir about growing up in the Philippines in the 1980s with Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and the EDSA Revolution.When she learns of her beloved father's fatal car accident, Mapa flies to Manila to attend his funeral. His sudden death sparks childhood memories. Weaving the past ...

Thirty Years Later Catching Up with the Marcos Era Crimes

Thirty Years Later Catching Up with the Marcos Era Crimes

Author : Myles Garcia
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Genre : Political Science
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Until they were expelled from power thirty years ago, in early 1986, the late dictator Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos (she, the Shoe Queen) jointly ruled the Philippines with impunity for 20+ years. They were an efficient cash-and-carry team—while he raided the national till, she shopped 'til she dropped. In the words ...

The House on Seaview Road

The House on Seaview Road

Author : Alison Walsh
Publisher : Hachette Ireland
Genre : Fiction
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The House on Seaview Road is a story about first love, growing up and about the enduring bonds of sisterhood. Perfect reading for fans of Joanna Trollope and Maggie O'Farrell. Marie Stephenson has decided that it's her last summer in Seaview - just a few months left before she can ...