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Imelda Marcos: The Rise and Fall of One of the World's Most Powerful Women
In 1966, Imelda Marcos was "rich, young and beautiful, an Asian Jacqueline Kennedy." Years later, Benigno Aquino - an opposition leader who was eventually brutally assassinated on the tarmac on a Manila airport tarmac - would call her "another Evita Peron," referring to her ruthless ambitionand seemingly insatiable desire for weatlh and power. By 1986, she was in exile in Hawaii, having been driven from the country she and her husband had led for over twenty years.
In Imelda Marcos, Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa tells the full story of Imelda's her tragically poor childhood and her subsequent drive to succeed socially, financially and politically.
This new edition in 2025, includes a foreword by the author's daughter, Veronica Pedrosa, herself an international journalist that covers the Marcos dynasty's resurgence with Imelda's son, Ferdinand Junior known as Bongbong, currently President of the Philippines.
A naive young woman from the provinces, Imelda first gained attention public attention in 1953 as the winner of the Miss Manila contest and caught the eye of rising young congressman Ferdinand E. Marcos. After a whirlwind courtship of just 11 days, they were married. Under Ferdinand's stern tutelage, Imelda would emerge as his most important political asset and, later, as one of the wealthiest, most powerful women in the world.
Based on years if research and in-depth interviews with both friends and foes of the Marcoses, this biography traces Imelda's life from her poverty-stricken origins, to her exile, providing insights not only into her character but also into the demise of the Marcos regime and the turbulent politics in the Philippines in the 1980s.
In Imelda Marcos, Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa tells the full story of Imelda's her tragically poor childhood and her subsequent drive to succeed socially, financially and politically.
This new edition in 2025, includes a foreword by the author's daughter, Veronica Pedrosa, herself an international journalist that covers the Marcos dynasty's resurgence with Imelda's son, Ferdinand Junior known as Bongbong, currently President of the Philippines.
A naive young woman from the provinces, Imelda first gained attention public attention in 1953 as the winner of the Miss Manila contest and caught the eye of rising young congressman Ferdinand E. Marcos. After a whirlwind courtship of just 11 days, they were married. Under Ferdinand's stern tutelage, Imelda would emerge as his most important political asset and, later, as one of the wealthiest, most powerful women in the world.
Based on years if research and in-depth interviews with both friends and foes of the Marcoses, this biography traces Imelda's life from her poverty-stricken origins, to her exile, providing insights not only into her character but also into the demise of the Marcos regime and the turbulent politics in the Philippines in the 1980s.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 21, 2025
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