In High Places
by Arthur Hailey | 
Capable of Honor
by Allen Drury | 
Corridors of Power
by C. P. Snow | 
Democracy
by Joan Didion | 
Why Did I Ever
by Mary Robison | 
Dead Languages
by David Shields | 
Puffball
by Fay Weldon | 
Continental Drift
by Russell Banks | 
The Horned Man
by James Lasdun | 
Collages
by Anais Nin | 
What I Lived For
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Sin
by Josephine Hart | 
Jill
by Philip Larkin | 
White Noise
by Don DeLillo | 
A Month of Sundays
by John Updike | 
Independent People
by Halldor Laxness | 
The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth | 
The Comedians
by Graham Greene | 
The Friendly Persuasion
by Jessamyn West | 
The Fortress
by Mesa Selimovic |
A piercing expose of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular "ugly American"--and 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--and how it might be fixed.