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The Ugly American
The Ugly American
Author: William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
Is President Kennedy's "Peace Corps" the answer to the problem raisedby this book? If this were not a free country, this book would be banned...A Bombshell." New York Herald Tribune. "The Ugly Amrican"--The best-sellng novel that is making American diplomatic history..."Urgent and facinating." John P. Marquand, Book of the Month Club News
ISBN: 290366
Publication Date: 1/1/1958
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Fawcett Publications
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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