Papers of Eugene L. Burdick, 19--? - 1962.

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Papers of Eugene L. Burdick, 19--? - 1962.

This collection contains a typescript of Burdick's book The Blue of Capricorn and the serialized version of his story Fail-Safe that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1962.

2 linear in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7108346

University of Iowa Libraries

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Burdick, Eugene A. (Eugene Allan), 1912-2000

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The author and political scientist Eugene Burdick was born in 1918 in Sheldon, Iowa, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 4. Burdick attended Stanford University and Oxford University where he earned a Ph.D. degree in psychology. In 1956 his critically acclaimed novel The Ninth Wave was published and in 1958 his controversial bestseller The Ugly American appeared, which he co-authored with William J. Lederer. In the following years Burdick continued to publish books and articles, including the...