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The World is Our Parish: John King Gordon, 1900-1989: An Intellectual Biography
The World is Our Parish John King Gordon 19001989 An Intellectual Biography Author:Keith Fleming One of Canada?s most outspoken and respected advocates of internationalism during the early Cold War, John King Gordon had a remarkably eclectic professional life. Keith R. Fleming?s biography of Gordon explores the man?s many careers, from his start as a Manitoba clergyman in the 1920s to his work as a United Nations field officer in Korea, the... more » Middle East, and the Congo.In ?The World Is Our Parish,? Fleming traces how Gordon?s passion for social reform and humanitarianism led him to become a clergyman, a political activist, a journalist, a professor, and one of Canada?s leading advocates of liberal internationalism in the years after World War Two. An exceptional biography of an extraordinary but little-known Canadian, ?The World Is Our Parish? uses Gordon?s professional and intellectual journey to reveal the confluence of liberal Christianity, social democracy, and internationalism in Canadian politics and thought.« less