In its place arose the concern for American relationships overseas that was to form the entire basis for the book following Ensign O'Toole--The Ugly American, written in cooperation with Eugene ...

The book’s hero is an American engineer named ... Africa has been halted by Mr. Musk’s cost-cutting efforts. The ugly American doesn’t care about such things. Mr. Trump isolates his country ...

I was immediately reminded of the novel The Ugly American. It’s a semi-fictional book written in 1958 that depicts the American arrogance, incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia.

The ugly American in the book’s title is actually a good guy and hero, a retired engineer named Homer Atkins, who, though homely in appearance, lives and works in communities in what were then ...