Eugene Norman Burdick

Fail Safe

The Deceptive American

The Ugly American

The Ugly American

The Ugly American

Fail Safe

The Blue of Capricorn

The Deceptive American

In 1965, the authors of The Ugly American published the novel Sarkhan, a book which they felt had an even more dramatic message than their great best-seller. Sarkhan was greeted with high praise, was a selection of both the Literary Guild and the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club. Many tens of tho...

Fail Safe

Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I t...

The Ugly American

The multi-million-copy bestseller that coined the phrase for tragic American blunders abroad. In the episode that lends the book its title, the "ugly American" is Homer Atkins, a plain and plain-spoken man, who has been sent by the U.S. government to advise the Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan on ...

Nina's Book Co-Author Of The Ugly American & Fail-Safe

Ninas Book by Eugene Burdick

The Ninth Wave

vintage book, cover worn,

The 480

The 480 paperback version.

Eugene Burdick

Eugene L. Burdick (December 12, 1918July 26, 1965), was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of The Ugly American ...