The Diplomat-Scholar: A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero

Erwin S. Fernandez

The Diplomat-Scholar: A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero
Format
Paperback
Publisher
ISEAS
Country
Singapore
Published
30 July 2017
Pages
360
ISBN
9789814762229

The Diplomat-Scholar: A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero

Erwin S. Fernandez

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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