- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: UBC Press (May 20 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0774816716
- ISBN-13: 978-0774816717
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
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#667,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #33 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( A ) > Adams, John
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Selected as one of Embassy's Top 20 reads of 2010
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John W. Holmes had more impact on the thinking of careful observers of Canada’s foreign policy than any other Canadian ‘scholar-diplomat.’ Adam Chapnick’s balanced, thoughtful, and highly readable account of his ‘public life’ tells us why. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Canada’s post-1945 diplomatic practice and how it came to be interpreted by government officials and independent observers alike.
– Denis Stairs, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Dalhousie University
This is an important biography of one of the most significant shapers of Canadian foreign policy during the post-Second World War period. In a highly engrossing manner, Adam Chapnick convincingly demonstrates how this policymaker and leading public intellectual came to personify Canadian foreign policy during some of the most critical moments of the postwar decades. This biography will become the standard work on the life of a public servant who, as Chapnick rightly says, served as his country’s ‘voice’ in international affairs.
– David G. Haglund, Professor of Political Studies, Queen’s University
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John W. Holmes had more impact on the thinking of careful observers of Canada’s foreign policy than any other Canadian ‘scholar-diplomat.’ Adam Chapnick’s balanced, thoughtful, and highly readable account of his ‘public life’ tells us why. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Canada’s post-1945 diplomatic practice and how it came to be interpreted by government officials and independent observers alike.
– Denis Stairs, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Dalhousie University
This is an important biography of one of the most significant shapers of Canadian foreign policy during the post-Second World War period. In a highly engrossing manner, Adam Chapnick convincingly demonstrates how this policymaker and leading public intellectual came to personify Canadian foreign policy during some of the most critical moments of the postwar decades. This biography will become the standard work on the life of a public servant who, as Chapnick rightly says, served as his country’s ‘voice’ in international affairs.
– David G. Haglund, Professor of Political Studies, Queen’s University
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It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell Holmes. Holmes joined the foreign service in 1943, headed the Canadian Institute of International Affairs from 1960 to 1973, and, as a professor of international relations, mentored a generation of students and scholars. This book charts the life of a diplomat and public intellectual who influenced both how scholars and statespeople abroad viewed Canada and how Canadians saw themselves on the world stage.
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