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Format: 1 online resource (x, 359 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9789814762434 (ebook)

Content: Leon Ma. Guerrero (1915-82), a top-notch writer and diplomat, served six Philippine presidents, beginning with President Manuel L. Quezon and ending with President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In this first full-length biography, Guerrero's varied career as writer and diplomat is highlighted from an amateur student editor and associate editor of a prestigious magazine to ambassador to different countries that reflected then the exciting directions of Philippine foreign policy. But did you know that he served as public prosecutor in the notorious Nalundasan murder case, involving the future Philippine president? Did you also know that during his stint as ambassador to the Court of Saint James he wrote his prize-winning biography of Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal? Learn more about him in this fully documented biography recounting with much detail from his correspondence the genesis and evolution of his thinking about the First Filipino, which is the apposite title of his magnum opus.

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Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9789814762229

Language: English

URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789814762434/type/BOOK

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 359 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)

ISBN: 9789814762434

Content: Leon Ma. Guerrero (1915-82), a top-notch writer and diplomat, served six Philippine presidents, beginning with President Manuel L. Quezon and ending with President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In this first full-length biography, Guerrero's varied career as writer and diplomat is highlighted from an amateur student editor and associate editor of a prestigious magazine to ambassador to different countries that reflected then the exciting directions of Philippine foreign policy. But did you know that he served as public prosecutor in the notorious Nalundasan murder case, involving the future Philippine president? Did you also know that during his stint as ambassador to the Court of Saint James he wrote his prize-winning biography of Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal? Learn more about him in this fully documented biography recounting with much detail from his correspondence the genesis and evolution of his thinking about the First Filipino, which is the apposite title of his magnum opus

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789814762229

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fernandez, Erwin Soriano The diplomat-scholar Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017 ISBN 9789814762229

Language: English

Keywords: Guerrero, León María 1915-1984 ; Botschafter ; Philippinen ; Biografie

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Format: 1 online resource (x, 359 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 981-4762-43-1

Content: Leon Ma. Guerrero (1915-82), a top-notch writer and diplomat, served six Philippine presidents, beginning with President Manuel L. Quezon and ending with President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In this first full-length biography, Guerrero's varied career as writer and diplomat is highlighted from an amateur student editor and associate editor of a prestigious magazine to ambassador to different countries that reflected then the exciting directions of Philippine foreign policy. But did you know that he served as public prosecutor in the notorious Nalundasan murder case, involving the future Philippine president? Did you also know that during his stint as ambassador to the Court of Saint James he wrote his prize-winning biography of Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal? Learn more about him in this fully documented biography recounting with much detail from his correspondence the genesis and evolution of his thinking about the First Filipino, which is the apposite title of his magnum opus.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018). , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Prologue -- , Chronology -- , I. Ermita and Santa Cruz to Intramuros: Between Literary and Legal Career -- , 1. Bourgeois Ermita: Birth and Boyhood -- , 2. Education under American Jesuits -- , 3. The Humorist as Critic, Writer and Actor -- , 4. Juggling Law and Journalism on the Eve of War -- , II. To Tokyo and Back: The Making of a Diplomat -- , 5. The Assistant Solicitor -- , 6. From Intelligence Officer in Bataan to the Return of Ignacio Javier -- , 7. Second, then First Secretary -- , 8. At the Home Office: The Diplomat as Historian -- , III. Going In, then Out of the Political Jungle: Padre Burgos to Arlegui -- , 9. The Legal Counsel, Professor and Translator -- , 10. The Foreign Policy Critic and Spokesman -- , 11. "Asia for the Asians" or How to Leave Arlegui in Six Months -- , IV. London and Madrid: The Philippines in a Resurgent Asia -- , 12. At the Court of Saint James -- , 13. A Verbal Tussle in the UN -- , 14. The Biographer -- , 15. At Franco Country -- , 16. In Search of the Burgos Trial Records -- , 17. Home Leave in Preparation for a State Visit -- , V. New Delhi to Belgrade: The Philippines towards Non-Alignment -- , 18. Homecoming to Asia at Nehruvian India -- , 19. "Diplomacy of Development" and Other Speeches -- , 20. The Foreign Policy Rescuer and Again, Critic -- , 21. The Diplomat as Efficient Intellectual-Bureaucrat -- , 22. Endorsing Non-alignment amid Personal Crisis -- , 23. Flirting with Dictators -- , 24. Martial Law Propagandist -- , 25. At Tito's Pre-Balkanized Yugoslavia -- , Epilogue -- , Glossary -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the Author , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 981-4762-22-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.1355/9789814762434