{"product_id":"the-first-filipino-1","title":"The First Filipino","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Rizal is usually portrayed in extremes either as a sinner or a saint, but Guerrero took the middle ground and gave his readers a human Rizal. Guerrero’s extensive and sensitive use of Rizal’s correspondence and writings shaped a new and more human picture of Rizal. It is remarkable in that the biographer usually stands aside and allows Rizal to speak for himself.” – Ambeth R. Ocampo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To Guerrero, Rizal is the greatest man produced by the Malay race; but he does not depict him as a saint or a stuffed shirt—rather, as a very human person, with faults common to many men, and even with “an eye for the fair sex,” a failing which some of our countrymen, who want to canonize the hero, would rather omit or gloss over.” – Carlos Quirino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23 x 15 x 2.5 cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mestiza Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390972485676,"sku":null,"price":500.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/artbooks.ph\/products\/the-first-filipino-1","provider":"artbooks.ph","version":"1.0","type":"link"}