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William J. Lederer (1912–2009)

Forfatter af The Ugly American

21+ Works 1,792 Members 30 Reviews

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Værker af William J. Lederer

The Ugly American (1958) 1,287 eksemplarer
A Nation of Sheep (1961) 179 eksemplarer
Hvem råder præsidenten? (1959) 108 eksemplarer
The Mirages of Marriage (1968) 97 eksemplarer
All the Ship's at Sea (1950) 24 eksemplarer
Our Own Worst Enemy (1968) 18 eksemplarer
Ensign O'Toole and me (1957) 13 eksemplarer
I, Giorghos (1984) 5 eksemplarer
The Story of Pink Jade (1966) 5 eksemplarer
Marital Choices (1981) 4 eksemplarer
Timothy's song (1965) 4 eksemplarer
Creating a Good Relationship (1984) 3 eksemplarer

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Several years before we stepped into Vietnam with the idea of saving democracy, this book foreshadowed our venal weaknesses and hubris. A classic.
 
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ben_r47 | 25 andre anmeldelser | Feb 22, 2024 |
This I read when trying to understand what Viet Nam in the 1960s would be like.
 
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mykl-s | 25 andre anmeldelser | Aug 6, 2023 |
A very loose collection of episodes detailing the interactions of various parts of the American expatriate community and the diplomatic service of the USA with the people and politics of a fictional south East Asian country, Sarkhan. When you are finished with reading it, you are open to understanding why the vietnamese war followed its course to the American defeat. The coutry that such an exploitive and manipulative alliance felt comfortable in creating, was easily prone to any socialist approach to getting rid of the American prescence ASAP. The book remains a telling critique of the American prescence in the world at large. For the rest of us it is a cautionary tale.… (mere)
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Værker
21
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1,792
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½ 3.6
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ISBN
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