From the pen of the first woman editor-in-chief of the Philippines, a tribune of Philippine journalism from the time of the dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, till today, here is the book's foreword, which is often an indication of what the rest of a book may just yield for the reader... Click here, too, for a recent review of the book by the writer Robert JA Basilio, Jr. Both courtesy of the Department of Shameless Plugging, of course...

FOREWORD TO
THE POVERTY OF MEMORY:
ESSAYS ON HISTORY AND EMPIRE
Lourdes Molina-Fernandez

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