Our Own Worst Enemy

by William J. Lederer

First Edition stated. W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, NY 1968. Good-/Good- dust jacket condition. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, books will ship immediately without email notification to customer (it’s on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 24 E H V VIEWFAIR 005472

Genres: Nonfiction

292 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 1968

About the author

William Julius Lederer, Jr. was an American author.

He was a US Naval Academy graduate in 1936. His first appointment was as the junior officer of a river gunboat on the Yangtze River.

His best selling work, 1958's The Ugly American, was one of several novels co-written with Eugene Burdick. Disillusioned with the style and substance of America's diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia, Lederer and Burdick openly sought to demonstrate their belief that American officials and civilians could make a substantial difference in Southeast Asian politics if they were willing to learn local languages, follow local customs and employ regional military tactics. However, if American policy makers continued to ignore the logic behind these lessons, Southeast Asia would fall under Soviet or Chinese Communist influence.

Reviews

[Greynomad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sad to say but the book was never on anyone's coffee table that had their head stuck up their backside. I was familiar with the CAP teams in country and they were the best. The unbelievable corruption in Vietnam was beyond imagination…………we did and should have lost the conflict form the git go.

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vietnam

[Michael Kelley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A surprising insight into the war but was ignored by American leadership.