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It's a littler earlier, but do you think it might have been The Ugly American

I highly recommend everyone read a book called, The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer.

This book can change your perspective on what it means to be abroad, how to comport yourself, perception as a reality, and ultimately how to influence people to your advantage.

Not sure why I put so much time into this. Mainly because I studied this subject for a bit and knew of a few good books/reads/watches. Figured I'd be a good guy and donate some time to this topic, hopefully reddit gains from it. Some of the book ratings are rather low, but that is mainly because the people who review this stuff on Amazon have no idea wtf they are talking about. There are movies down at the end, but eh, I recommend the readings beyond the movies, but the movies are fucking great as well:

Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era, Elaine Tyler May:
http://www.amazon.com/Homeward-Bound-American-Families-Cold/dp/0465030556

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Lizabeth Cohen:
http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Republic-Politics-Consumption-Postwar/dp/0375707379/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324631708&sr=1-1

A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954: Michael J. Hogan:
http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Iron-National-Security-1945-1954/dp/0521795370/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324631733&sr=1-8

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Penny M. Von Eschen:
http://www.amazon.com/Satchmo-Blows-Up-World-Ambassadors/dp/0674015010

Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents, Ellen Schrecker:
http://www.amazon.com/Age-McCarthyism-Brief-History-Documents/dp/0312393199/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324632473&sr=1-1

"Here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture, Reinhold Wagnietner:
http://www.amazon.com/Here-There-Everywhere-Politics-American/dp/1584650354

By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Paul Boyer:
http://www.amazon.com/Bombs-Early-Light-American-Thought/dp/0807844802

God's Country: America in the 50's, Ronald Oakley:
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Country-Ronald-J-Oakley/dp/0942637240

Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America, Brandford Wright:
http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Nation-Transformation-Culture/dp/0801874505

The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s, Richard Pells: http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Conservative-Age-Intellectuals/dp/0819562254

The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974, Arthur Marwick:
http://www.amazon.com/Sixties-Cultural-Revolution-Britain-c-1958-c-1974/dp/019210022X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324633925&sr=8-1

The Ugly American, Burdick: http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-American-Eugene-Burdick/dp/0393318672

1968: The World Transformed, Carole Fink: http://www.amazon.com/1968-Transformed-Publications-Historical-Institute/dp/0521646375

The Origins of the Cold War, McMahon: http://edu.cengage.co.uk/catalogue/product.aspx?isbn=0395904307

Rebel Without a Cause: Beth Bailey: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22800810/Rebel-Without-a-Cause

The Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties: Voices of Reaction, Protest, and Permeation
Arthur Marwick: http://www.jstor.org/pss/40109676

Coca-Cola and the Cold War: The French Face Americanization, 1948-1953, Richard F. Kuisel: http://www.jstor.org/stable/286280

The One Dimensional Man: Herbert Marcuse http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/64onedim/odmcontents.html

I've read so many good articles from JSTOR, but as a non-student you'll have to pay for them, just as you'd have to pay for the books above. But yea JSTOR is rich in Cold War studies. I would say first check out the books there.

Unrelated but creates a good mindset for the cold war:

Rise of the Rich, Peter Gran, http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Rich-Modern-World-History/dp/0815631715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324635338&sr=8-1

A few movies besides Atomic Cafe and Stangelove:

The Wild One,
Rebels without a Cause,
One Two Three,
The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (Mad Men fans will love this one),
On the Beach (1959, fuck the remake: ps read the book)

oh...and...
Mad Men

Enjoy

The Ugly American

These are the people who represent Americans to the rest of the world. The Ugly American

In that case, I suggest The Ugly American, whether or not you are American--or ugly ;-)

>who were/are in the back pockets of the rich

[citation needed]

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Citation given.

>Excellent argument. Pure, raw, intelligence, right here.

I'm making fun of how wealthy people have become scapegoats. All we're missing are men with conviction, and guillotines.

If you'd like to discuss how things got the way they are in private, I'd really enjoy the conversation.

>See my previous statement about buffer states

Defending against Communism.

>Vietnam wouldn't have gone socialist if we hadn't forced them to go to russia for help after we screwed them. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist more than he was a socialist

I'd like to share with you a fantastic book I read about diplomacy in southeast Asia. It's called The Ugly American, and it's a novel written by a dozen diplomats which tells the story of how we lost influence in southeast Asia.

Unfortunately not an uncommon practice...or restricted to a specific political party.

https://www.npr.org/2014/12/03/368143632/obama-appoints-too-many-big-donors-to-ambassadorships-critics-say

A good novel that discusses this is called “The Ugly American”. Worth a read.

https://www.amazon.com/Ugly-American-Eugene-Burdick/dp/0393318672