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30 Jan 2018, 4:00 pm by Smita Ghosh
Hershberg reviews The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, in which Max Boot “tracks the fascinating but ultimately depressing trajectory” of Edward Lansdale--who inspired the Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American” (1955) and Eugene Burdick’s “The Ugly American” (1958)--and his attempts at assisting the South Vietnamese in the years before the Vietnam War. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 11:00 am by Mark A. Lawrence
” Boot performs the reverse feat, giving Burdick and Lederer’s “Colonel Hillandale” real flesh and bones. [read post]