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“eugene burdick”

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  • Fail-Safe

    by Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling authors, this "chilling and engrossing" nuclear-showdown thriller packs "a multi-megaton wallop" ( Chicago Tribune).Originally published during the Cuban Missile Crisis, this suspenseful novel takes off as a group of American bombers—armed with a deadly payload of nuclear weapons—heads towards Moscow, their motives unknown. Suddenly, a nuclear apocalypse looms ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE Ugly American

    by WILLIAM J. LEDERER, EUGENE BURDICK ...
    The Ugly American, novel by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, published in 1958. A fictionalized account of Americans working in Southeast Asia, the book was notable chiefly for exposing many of the deficiencies in U.S. foreign-aid policy and for causing a furor in government circles. Eventually the uproar led to a congressional review of foreign aid. Although some of the novelís characters ... Read more

    $1.50 USD

  • The Ninth Wave

    by Eugene Burdick ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The 480

    by Eugene Burdick ...
    Narrated by Jim Moore ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    Released not long after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, in the run-up to the 1964 national election, Eugene Burdick’s blockbuster political novel, The 480, foresaw the rise of social media and twenty-first century analytical data manipulation, the use of computer-generated voter profiles to shape—for better or for worse—the outcome of a major national election. Burdick—coauthor of The ... Read more

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