A concise study of Andrés Bonifacio as the architect of the 1896 Filipino Revolution against Spain—the first nationalist uprising in Asia—and the argument that his project was cut short long before its aims for genuine independence and social emancipation could be realized. Villanueva pushes back against the centering of Rizal and Aguinaldo in the national story, positioning the Supremo and the revolution he launched as unfinished business that still presses on Philippine life today.