This book brings into conversation historians, journalists, political scientists, pundits, lawyers, and economists across generations as they engage in a collective assessment of Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.’s regime. Extensive as well as incisive, the essays in this unprecedented anthology appraise different facets of this seminal period’s policies, programs, and personalities and reveal a complicated legacy whose full import and impact have yet to be thoroughly unpacked.

1. Marcos, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin), 1917-1989. 2. Philippines - Politics and government - 1965-1986. 3. Philippines - History - 1965-1986. 4. Philippines - Economic conditions - 1965-1985.