Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Each author took half the chapters, bought a small, portable dictating machine, and outlined his sections on one side of the machine's small records. He would then mail the record to the other, who would inscribe suggestions on the back of the record. After one or two further crossings...
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.
"Of the 3,500 I took," says Lederer, "90 per cent asked 'What can I do about this situation?' After I had spent 18 months answering letters, it dawned upon me that it was odd these people had to ask me. So I started on another book, trying to tell...
A Nation of Sheep, to be released this spring, "points out, without so stating" that the average American doesn't know enough to do anything. Lederer takes a few of the more prominent recent foreign issues, attempting to demonstrate that the public has received little true information, from either the...
He decided to finish his book at Harvard about three weeks ago. After Lederer had lectured at a law school forum, Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell House, invited him to return for a few days to the place where he had stayed as a Nieman fellow. Lederer remained here for...