The Ugly American.

LEDERER, William J. and Eugene Burdick.

Item Number: 106399

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good 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.