FRANCISCO S. TATAD
THIS was how the former Senate President described his journey in 2015, on the launch of his second biography, Edgardo J. Angara: In the Grand Manner, by UP professor Jose “Butch” Dalisay, Jr., nine years after the publication of his first bio, Seer of Sea and Sierra, by the National Artist for Literature, Nick Joaquin. “It’s been a far from perfect life,” he said, “fraught with accident—sometimes happily so—and misadventure. But it has been a grand opportunity and privilege to serve the Filipino people as lawyer, lawmaker and educator.”