The Ugly American - Hardcover

William Julius Lederer

4.05

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393084612 ISBN 13: 9780393084610

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1958

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The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism

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Review:

A very important bombshell.

Not only important but consistently entertaining.

Slashing.... Draw[s] the reader into a vital subject rarely treated by fiction.

[A] powerful and absorbing indictment.... Should be required reading in Washington and elsewhere.

To make use of the truth, unbelievable truth... William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick wrote this devastating indictment of American policy [in Southeast Asia] as fiction. But any correspondent who has been any length of time in the locale of the story will recognize its veracity. --Robert Trumbull

A delightfully readable book. --James A. Michener

Both enlightening and absorbing reading, with humor and wit.

A powerful, searching book.

A very important bombshell.

Not only important but consistently entertaining.

About the Author:

Eugene Burdick's other books include Fail-Safe.

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