{"id":406899,"date":"2022-02-23T08:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineshop.net\/product\/the-ugly-american\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:41:21","slug":"the-ugly-american","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/product\/the-ugly-american\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The multi-million-copy bestseller that blends truth and fiction in a \u201cdevastating indictment of American policy\u201d (<em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A piercing expos\u00e9 of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia,\u00a0<em>The Ugly American<\/em>\u00a0captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular \u201cugly American\u201d\u2014and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors who ignore his empathetic and commonsense advice. In linked stories and vignettes set in the fictional nation of Sarkhan, William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick draw an incisive portrait of American foreign policy gone dangerously wrong\u2014and how it might be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Eerily relevant sixty years after its initial publication,\u00a0<em>The Ugly American<\/em>\u00a0reminds us that \u201ctoday, as the battle for hearts and minds has shifted to the Middle East, we still can\u2019t speak Sarkhanese\u201d (<em>New York Times<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>William J. Lederer<\/strong>\u00a0(1912-2009) was was a former U.S. Navy captain and the co-author of\u00a0<em>The Ugly American<\/em>\u00a0(with Eugene Burdick),\u00a0<em>The Mirages of Marriage<\/em>\u00a0(with Don D. Jackson), and other books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eugene Burdick<\/strong>\u00a0was a political scientist and author of\u00a0<em>The Ugly American,\u00a0Fail-Safe,<\/em>\u00a0and other books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-million-copy bestseller that blends truth and fiction in a \u201cdevastating indictment of American policy\u201d (New York Times Book Review). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":406944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[3575],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406899","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-historical-fiction","8":"first","9":"outofstock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"bundle_layout":"","bundled_by":[],"bundled_items":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/406899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=406899"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineshop.ecomitize.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=406899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}