Book Review: The Ugly American, Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (1958)
There’s a reason for two book reviews in one week. We’ll get to that later. But The Ugly American is a seminal and hugely influential work of fictionalized reporting that still deserves your attention fifty-one years after its publication. Co-written by by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer it tells the story, in a series of linked vignettes,…