The conjugal dictatorship book
The conjugal dictatorship book
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The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
1976 memoir by Primitivo Mijares
The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos is a 1976 memoir written in exile by former press censor and propagandist Primitivo Mijares.
It details the inner workings of Philippine martial law under Ferdinand Marcos from the perspective of Mijares.
The book's use of the term "conjugal dictatorship" has since been used to denote the rule of Philippine president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos, and is also used to describe a type of familial dictatorship.[1][2]
Background and conception
A journalist who had become a propagandist and confidant for Ferdinand Marcos, Primitivo Mijares had served under Marcos since 1963 and claimed to have been privy to government's high-level doings.[3] As Chairman of the National Press Club, Mijares ran the Media Advisory Council, a state agency established to censor the press in 1973