The Ugly American.
“'You're the wrong person to be permitted to do it": Lederer and Burdick's The Ugly American; Lengthily Inscribed by both authors
The Ugly American.
LEDERER, William J. and Eugene Burdick.
$850.00
Item Number: 139901
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed W.J. Lederer on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Alan Haemer.
First published in 1958, The Ugly American became a runaway national bestseller for its slashing exposé of American arrogance, incompetence, and corruption in Southeast Asia. In linked stories and vignettes, the book uses gripping storytelling to draw a devastating picture of how the United States was losing the struggle with Communism in Asia.
