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Ugly American" became a stereotype of the American abroad universally disliked...The novel also conveyed that the few Americans who were knowledgeable of and interested in foreign countries are systematically weeded out from foreign service. The novel's Ambassador Sears thinks of the natives as "little monkeys" and had no idea where the country was located in which he was given the job as a political reward. He was among the American officials described by one of the articulate natives as people who cannot grasp the power of ideas (unlike the communists) and who were sent over to "try to buy us like cattle".
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By August, only days after the close of the conference, the team was in place. Under the direction of CIA leading-light Edward Lansdale, fresh from his success in the Philippines, a campaign of military and psychological warfare was carried out against the Vietminh. (Lansdale's activities in Vietnam
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was published the following year. Senator Kennedy first mentioned the idea of creating a Peace Corps during his campaign for President in 1960 and in March 1961, two months after his inauguration, Kennedy announced the establishment of the Peace Corps. Kennedy and other members of the administration
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In one vignette, a Burmese journalist says, "For some reason, the people I meet in my country are not the same as the ones I knew in the United States. A mysterious change seems to come over Americans when they go to a foreign land. They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They are
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The American Ambassador "Lucky" Lou Sears confines himself to his comfortable diplomatic compound in the capital. The Soviet ambassador speaks the local language and understands the local culture. He informs his Moscow superiors that Sears "keeps his people tied up with meetings, social events, and
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It was the highly popular message of the book that Americans abroad, and officials in particular, were both totally ignorant of local customs, social norms, and culture and cheerfully insensitive to the feelings and beliefs of the peoples they were seeking to defend from the communist threat. "The
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was so impressed with the book that he sent a copy to each of his colleagues in the United States Senate. The book was one of the biggest bestsellers in the U.S., has been in print continuously since it appeared, and is one of the most politically influential novels in all of American literature.
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about the book's impact since it was first published. The reviewer wrote that "the book's enduring resonance may say less about its literary merits than about its failure to change American attitudes. Today, as the battle for hearts and minds has shifted to the Middle East, we still can't speak
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The "Ugly American" of the book title refers to the book's hero, plain-looking engineer Homer Atkins, whose "calloused and grease-blackened hands always reminded him that he was an ugly man." Atkins, who lives with the local people, comes to understand their needs, and offers genuinely useful
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because of the ineptitude and the bungling of the U.S. diplomatic corps stemming from innate arrogance and their failure to understand the local culture. The book implies that the Communists were successful because they practiced tactics similar to those of protagonist Homer Atkins.
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It was in this atmosphere of fear, mistrust, and uncertainty in the United States about Soviet military and technological might and Communist political success in unaligned nations of the Third World that the novel was published in 1958, with an immediate impact.
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greeting and briefing the scores of senators, congressmen, generals, admirals, under secretaries of state and defense, and so on, who come pouring through here to 'look for themselves.'" Sears undermines the creative efforts to head off the communist insurgency.
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The book became an instant bestseller, going through 20 printings from July to November 1958, remaining on the bestseller list for a year and a half, and ultimately selling four million copies. The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles.
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came to be used to refer to the "loud and ostentatious" type of visitor in another country rather than the "plain looking folks, who are not afraid to 'get their hands dirty' like Homer Atkins" to whom the book itself referred.
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took its title in part from the book, recalled the sense of diplomatic bungling in Southeast Asia portrayed in the book, and pointed out that many Arab commentators likened American mistakes in Iraq to those in Southeast Asia.
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The title entered the English language for a type of character portrayed in the book. The book is one of a very few works of fiction that had a profound and lasting impact on American political debate, along with such works as
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technician named Otto Hunerwadel, who, with his wife Helen, served in Burma from 1949 until his death in 1952. They lived in the villages, where they taught farming techniques, and helped to start home canning industries.
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Given the mood of fear and uncertainty in the U.S. at the time due to Sputnik and other perceived failures in the struggles of the Cold War, a book about diplomatic failures in Southeast Asia was well-aligned with the
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first introduced a bill in Congress in 1957 for the formation of a Peace Corps aimed primarily at development in the Third World, but "it did not meet with much enthusiasm" and the effort failed. The
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treason charges. Historian Daniel Immerwahr wrote that the book promoted the idea that Americans, if they conducted themselves properly, could solve the problems of the Third World.
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tactics in fighting communists in South Vietnam. According to British documentary film maker Adam Curtis, Senator and future U.S. President "John F. Kennedy was gripped by
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Presidents, Senators, and Congressmen alluded to the book or quoted from it, either as commentary or to further their objectives, or to criticize it. Senator
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Lasting impacts in the Kennedy administration included President Kennedy's national physical fitness program, his statement of America's willingness to "
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speech to a 1964 university graduating class, and it was by then used as a pejorative expression for generally offensive behavior by Americans abroad.
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and attempted to secure the region's most populous and politically powerful country for the West by guarantees of funding for construction of the
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Reviews in some news or opinion publications reflected the varying opinions extant during the Cold War public debate. A reviewer in
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partly as a result of the book. The bestseller has remained continuously in print and is one of the most influential American
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The novel takes place in a fictional nation called Sarkhan (an imaginary country in Southeast Asia that somewhat resembles
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in the United States and worries about falling behind technologically and militarily. In Asia, the French had left
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who served as special assistant to the commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific and Asian theater.
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Hellmann, John (July 1983). "Vietnam as Symbolic Landscape: The Ugly American and the New Frontier".
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assistance with small-scale projects such as the development of a simple bicycle-powered water pump.
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was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, and served in the Navy during
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Another of the book's characters, Colonel Hillandale, appears to have been modeled on the real-life
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into orbit in 1957 gave the Soviets a huge technological and propaganda victory and sparked a
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Immerwahr, Daniel (2019). "The Ugly American: Peeling the Onion of an Iconic Cold War Text".
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The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles and had major political implications. The
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and said that the book was trying to answer some of the questions raised by Greene's book.
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an American in a foreign country whose behavior is offensive to the people of that country
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was underway with the U.S. well ahead initially, but by 1955, the Soviets had exploded a
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in the Fall of 1958, and came out as a Book of the Month Club selection in October.
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In the Middle East, the U.S. feared the spread of Communism starting in
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The book was very much a product of its times and historical context.
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viewed the Peace Corps as their answer to the problems described in
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and primed to catch attention. The book was lavishly praised in the
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The "ugly American" in the Arab Mind: Why Do Arabs Resent America?
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called it a "crude series of black-and-white-cartoons" while the
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in May 1959, the "real" "Ugly American" was identified as an
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to fill the perceived power vacuum. The U.S. and the Soviets
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divided Europe into two competing visions of the world: the
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was in full force, pitting the two geopolitical giants, the
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The film version of the novel was made in 1963 and starred
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1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer
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received mixed reviews and did poorly at the box office.
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Lederer and Burdick later published a 1965 novel called
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Johnson, Claudia Durst; Johnson, Vernon Elso (2002).
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After the book had gained wide readership, the term
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through proxies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
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Index

Ugly American (disambiguation)
The Ugly American (film)

Eugene Burdick
William Lederer
Political fiction
1958
Norton
OCLC
287560
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
political novel
Eugene Burdick
William Lederer
U.S. diplomatic corps
Southeast Asia
Peace Corps
Kennedy administration
political novels
William Lederer
captain
U.S. Navy
Eugene Burdick
World War II
Vietnam War
Southeast Asia
Cold War
United States
Soviet Union

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