Eugene Burdick

Fail-safe

William J. Lederer

The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism

The Ugly American

The 480 is a political fiction novel by Eugene Burdick (1964). The plot evolves around the political turmoil after John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963. In the novel, a fictitious charismatic character, John Thatch, an engineer, is seeking nomination for the Republican Party candidate at 1964 presidential elections.

The 480

Harvey Wheeler

Anne Hoeksema

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Fataal alarm

The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.

The Ninth Wave, published in 1956, follows a political campaign complete with then cutting-edge innovations of opinion polling, computers and the use of campaign consultants. Though we now know -- even in a world of Facebook and Obama -- that data and numbers can't quite predict and control political outcomes in the way the book lays out, the world has turned out close enough to Burdick's picture of the future to make The Ninth Wave a prescient and still relevant story, and one that should be loved by people who are into the mechanics of politics. (Mark Pack)

The Ninth Wave

Nina and her friends in the French Resistance help an American pilot, shot down over Brittany in World War II, to freedom. Rodney continues to fly, but Nina is picked up by the Nazis and spends the next few years in a German concentration camp. They meet up again in post-war Paris.

Eugene Burdick

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