Bech Third-Worlds It

Bech Third-Worlds ItNow it can be told. How Henry Bech, the scarcely read yet oddly respectable American author, permitted himself, out of loyalty to a country of which his impressions were almost entirely whimsical, to be used by the State Department as a cultural emissary to whatever little nation it could think of; this was in the Cold War's slush season, the years (1968--1972) before the Soviet Union and the United States realized that, far from wishing to win the minds and the hearts of the...