Duterte Harry: fire and fury in the Philippines - Softcover

Miller, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911617036 ISBN 13: 9781911617037

Publisher: Scribe UK, 2018

Synopsis

The first biography of Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous, unpredictable president of the Philippines, whose war on drugs has seen thousands of people killed in cold blood. Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens - all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womaniser and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis `sons of whores'. He is on record as saying he does not `give a shit' about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel. In this revelatory biography, Channel 4 News' Asia Correspondent Jonathan Miller charts Duterte's rise, and shows how this fascinating, fearsome man can be seen as the embodiment of populism in our time.

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`"Fire and fury" is the mentality of despots everywhere. Miller has terrifyingly captured that condition - bullying, threatening, vengeful, and lethal.' -- Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury `An invaluable portrait ... it deftly weaves Duterte's rise with the country's history of living through dictatorship and nearly making it across the line where some degree of economic prosperity and political maturity was making a dent on social inequality and impunity - before being rudely and brutally thrown into the mass grave that it has turned into.' -- Ruben Carranza, Filipino lawyer `This book will piss off the powerful, which is why you should read it... With unflinching prose and the rigour of a veteran journalist, Jonathan Miller disrobes Rodrigo Duterte for all to see. Beyond the myths and propaganda of [Duterte's] supporters, the Filipino politician is here paraded nakedly, with his contradicting good intentions that involve bloody violence, broken promises, and the brazen perpetuation of dynastic patronage politics that continue to dismantle Asia's oldest free republic ... This portrait presents a cautionary tale of the kind of authoritarian rulers that stand to hijack any democracy if we citizens do not participate in protecting it while we still can.' -- Miguel Syjuco, author of Ilustrado 'Among the most skilled and lyrical correspondents that I know: Miller describes the grim actions of one of the most infernal leaders of the 21st century. A shocking book - but one that demands to be read.' -- Jon Snow

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribe UK
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1911617036
• ISBN 13: 9781911617037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352