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To fight without end: The story of a misunderstood president
273 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 1990
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October 4, 2025
A book about a President many Filipino’s have forgotten, overshadowed by his successor - who to my surprise was his protege whom he betrayed.
There are many layers to Quirino’s story that’s buried under stories such as his “Golden Orinola” which was the little I knew about him before reading this book (do note: this was dispelled by a couple of professors I had in college as the lessons centered on dirty tactics in politics). Aside from him being born in a jail, historical tidbits that entice like gossip, not much is known about him which is a shame. And what keeps people from knowing is the scarcity of such a book in the general public.
I hope this gets republished for us to get a glimpse of how well meaning people get eaten by a system, for us to realize that there were and still are good people caught in a bad system, and how our history repeats itself to our continuing misery.
There are many layers to Quirino’s story that’s buried under stories such as his “Golden Orinola” which was the little I knew about him before reading this book (do note: this was dispelled by a couple of professors I had in college as the lessons centered on dirty tactics in politics). Aside from him being born in a jail, historical tidbits that entice like gossip, not much is known about him which is a shame. And what keeps people from knowing is the scarcity of such a book in the general public.
I hope this gets republished for us to get a glimpse of how well meaning people get eaten by a system, for us to realize that there were and still are good people caught in a bad system, and how our history repeats itself to our continuing misery.
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