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...attack on Randolph, for example, calls to mind Meany's dispute with Rep. Adam Clayton Powell. When segregationist Rep. Burdick of North Carolina retired in 1959 as Chairman of the mightly House Committee on Education and Welfare, Meany opposed Powell's succession violently. Powell's pro-labor voting record (and Burdick's anti-labor tally) were apparently inconsequential...
...first met Bud (Burdick)," Lederer explains, "when we were both fellow students at the Bread-loaf writers' conference, the summer session of Middlebury College. Then I went out to the Pacific with the Navy, and he won a Rhodes Scholarship. We met again 10 years later, just after he had been in the Pacific doing an article for Holiday magazine. We both had ideas about American diplomacy, and so we decided to write a book together about...
...Burdick was living at the University of California, and the Navy had stationed Lederer in Honolulu, where he still lives. After both had done a considerable amount of independent research and formed definite ideas on the content of the proposed book, Lederer flew to California for a weekend. While there, he and Burdick outlined every chapter even remotely possible--over 60, of which about 20 were finally used. Lederer then returned to Honolulu, and the actual writing was begun...
Little need be said of The Ugly American's impact upon the reading public. Close to 1,750,000 copies were sold, and in the months after the book appeared on the stands, Lederer and Burdick received over 8,000 letters. Each of them answered half...
Lederer left Cambridge early Monday morning, heading back to Honolulu. On the way, he plan to stop in California to discuss the possibilities of beginning a "pure" novel--"no message"--with Burdick. Its subject? "I'm going back to humor...