Estelito mendoza children

This book is the biography of Estelito “Titong” P. Mendoza, a Filipino public servant and highly revered litigator. As with most biographies, it is filled with self-laudatory statements, sometimes accompanied by “testimonies” of Mendoza’s contemporaries.

I firmly believe the book would have been better had it been written by Titong himself, similar to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Deus Ex Machina. Any accolades and praises should have been reserved to the actual reproductions of transcripts, letters, or recordings by third parties, not mere surmises made by the authors. In legal parlance, the statements in the book would be considered heresay. As such, the most engaging and memorable part in the biography is when Titong’s own words were used in the transcript of his great defense of Erap.

Whether the authors attempted to depict themselves as reliable objective narrators or as admirers of Mendoza is not clear. What is clear though is that there were three varying voices in this book — Titong and the t

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