Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-146).

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Memorialising Rizal -- The Rizal Family -- Rizal and Filipinos overseas -- The humour of rizal -- Paciano Rizal : the other rizal -- The man who save the Noli -- The Man who saved the Fili -- Rizal's Filipino colony under the British flag -- Josephine Bracken : Rizal's de facto wife -- Where Rizal was buried -- Rare photos from the National Library -- Chronology of events in the life of Jose Rizal -- Ang mga karampatan ng tao.

Rizal the man, writes Austin Coates, stands among those few who are companion to no particular epoch or continent, who belong to the world, and whose lives have a universal message.