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Archive Home > 2010 > January > 11 > William Lederer’s ‘The Ugly American’ blasted U.S. policy in Southeast Asia

William Lederer’s ‘The Ugly American’ blasted U.S. policy in Southeast Asia

By Matt Schudel / The Bulletin
January 11, 2010

William J. Lederer, 97, the co-author of the influential 1958 novel “The Ugly American,” which condemned U.S. diplomatic policies in Southeast Asia and was often credited as an inspiration for the Peace Corps, died Dec. 5 of respiratory failure at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore.

Lederer, who was a....

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