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The Ugly American
The Ugly American
Author: William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
The Ugly American is the title of a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The novel became a bestseller, it was influential at the time, and it is still in print. The book is a quasi-roman à clef; that is, it presents, in a fictionalized guise, the experience of Americans in Southeast Asia (that is, Vietnam) and allegedly ...  more »
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ISBN: 260805
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Crest Giant
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Quite the book when it came out, although it seems rather simplistic by today's standards. The reference to the ugly American is actually the heroic American in the book, although the phrase has taken on a whole new meaning today.
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