00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-8027390931311935875 Buklod 20250520184017.0 m |o d | ta 250520s2023 ph a rb |000 0|eng d 9786214482467 (pb) 23063753 BC-75742 Mind Mover Publishing House Inc. Php1,314.00 Department of History and Philosophy DLC BAG rda eng DS 686.6 M35 P86 2023 Punongbayan, Jan Carlo author. False nostalgia the Marcos “golden age” myths and how to debunk them J.C. Punongbayan. Marcos “golden age” myths and how to debunk them. Quezon City, Philippines Bughaw, an imprint of Ateneo de Manila University Press [2023] xxiii, 377 pages illustrations 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Carefree utopia -- Crisis mismanagement -- Crazy rich Filipinos. This book is going to be perhaps the most lethal weapon in the arsenal against the so-far partially successful attempts (thanks to social media) to tout the 20-year Marcos era (January 1966 to February 1986) as a “golden age” in Philippine history. Specifically, JC Punongbayan relentlessly examines every one of 43 claims that have been made regarding that period—from the faintly ridiculous (that Imelda Marcos did not use public funds to build her “bopis” hospitals) to the utterly insane (that nobody was poor during the Marcos regime). And he debunks every one of them with a mountain of data and past studies, all footnoted, referenced, and acknowledged so anyone can check and see for themselves the accuracy of JC’s rebuttals. The joy of it is that he combines seven years of scholarly research with simple, clear, compelling writing. Marcos, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin) 1917-1989. Philippines Politics and government 1973-1986. Philippines Economic conditions 1946-1986. FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN DS 686.6 M35 P86 2023 Book