Lawyer, educator, legislator, cultural champion, and statesman–“a senator’s senator,” as former Senate President Jovito R. Salonga aptly described him.
All these varied facets of former Senator Edgardo J. Angara emerge in a new biography, Edgardo J. Angara: In the Grand Manner, published by the University of the Philippines Press and written by the UP Professor and prizewinning author Dr. Jose Dalisay Jr.
The book will be launched on April 29, Wednesday, from 3 to 6 pm at the Manila Polo Club.
The biography traces Angara’s ascent to public leadership from his boyhood in Baler, Aurora to his law studies at the University of the Philippines and the University of Michigan, prior to opening what would become one of the country’s leading law firms, ACCRA Law.
It then follows his career in public service as Constitutional Convention delegate, UP President, Senator and Senate President, Agriculture Secretary, and Executive Secretary.
Once considered by the late National Artist Nick Joaquin as the country’s best presidential hope, Angara served the people and nation in a multitude of other capacities.
As senator, he authored many landmark bills that made a key difference in the lives of millions of Filipinos—the Senior Citizens Act, PhilHealth, the Generics Act, Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization, the Free High School Act, the creation of CHED and TESDA and of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and a host of financial and educational reforms.
“It’s been a far from perfect life, fraught with accident—sometimes happily so—and misadventure. But it has also been a grand opportunity and privilege to serve the Filipino people as lawyer, lawmaker, and educator,” says the man better known as SEJA.
The author, Jose Dalisay, teaches English at UP and has written the biographies of Washington SyCip and the Lava brothers, among others. Most recently, he was a Pacific Leadership Fellow at the University of California, San Diego.
For more information, call Baby Palmerola at 0917-9807800.
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