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Your review of the Lederer-Burdick book The Ugly American [Oct. 6] could come only from a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of the job the authors apparently set out to accomplish. The book intended to tell the people of this country something they need to understand about how our foreign affairs are conducted; it does that job in simple language and in easily understood terms. It is one of the most effective editorials I have ever read. And that's what it is, more than fiction, an editorial...
...Ugly American, by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. A slashing though all too simon-simple polemic, in the guise of fiction, about the men and women who have taken up the white man's burden for the U.S. in Southeast Asia...
Diplomatic Diet. To document their case, the authors-Captain William J. Lederer, U.S.N., an Annapolis graduate and special assistant to Admiral Felix B. Stump in the Pacific, and Political Scientist and Novelist (The Ninth Wave) Eugene Burdick-have chosen to write a series of fictional sketches "based on fact." They are really a series of crude, black-and-white cartoons...
Golden Ghetto. Opposed to the no-goodniks are the do-gooders, who, according to the Lederer-Burdick ideal, live at the native level, stay outside the Americans' "ingrown social life," also known as S.I.G.G. (Social Incest in the Golden Ghetto), never shop at the PX, work with their hands, and do winsome things like playing the harmonica. Among the best of these is "the ugly American" of the title, a big, homely engineering genius full of bright, simple, technical ideas that the overambitious Asians want no part of. Like most of the "good" Americans in the book...
What Lederer-Burdick say they want in the U.S. Foreign Service is "a small force of well-trained professionals" who are willing "to risk their comforts and-in some lands-their health." What the authors really want (and no one can deny that it would be fine, if it were possible) is a bunch of saints with engineering degrees...