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Imelda - by Katherine Ellison
Book Synopsis
Imelda Marcos - famous for her 1,060 pairs of shoes - was also one of the most powerful and controversial figures in world history.
She was extraordinarily beautiful, charismatic, determined - and savage.
"Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines," a uniquely unauthorized biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison, describes the Philippine first lady's rise from near-poverty to unimaginable riches, her surprisingly tenacious attempt to take over as dictator, and her fatal grudge match with her chief political rival, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino.
"The research here is superb, the writing is gripping and graceful."
-The Washington Post
After helping reveal Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos' multi-billion-dollar corruption in a Pulitzer-prize-winning newspaper series, Ellison returned to the Philippines, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
to interview scores of Imelda's relatives, friends, bodyguards, "Blue Ladi