Thursday, January 14, 2010

A Once Controversial Novel Now Collects Dust, Apparently



The Ugly American is owned by 8 of 41 LINKcat libraries.

Link to January 14 New York Times obituary of William J. Lederer.

Lesson not learned? “The Ugly American” portrayed the American foreign service community as isolated and self-congratulatory, its workers as inept and smugly arrogant in their dealings with the local population.

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