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Sat 11 Nov 2002Serving on the road to peace BiographyBIOGRAPHY: As someone who worked on occasion with Dr Martin Mansergh during his years in the public service, I took up this biography with interest. I knew him as a scholarly figure with a deep sense of history and an enormous capacity for work. Despite his influential role and the very considerable contribution he has made to public life over more than 20 years, however, Dr Mansergh maintained a low public profile until recently. Because of this, I wondered if an account of his life and career would be of sufficient general interest to justify a full-length biography.