Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Join Mike from Riff Raff’s Reading Renaissance and Emily from Em Reads - A Continuing Education as we dive into Graham Greene’s The Quiet American and discuss the role of America in International affairs. #GrahamGreene #TheQuietAmerican #booktube

Emily (Em Reads - A Continuing Education) youtube.com/@emreads25
Mike (Riff Raff's reading Renaissance) youtube.com/@RiffRaffReads

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro to Buddy Read
01:33 Historical Context of the book
04:12 The Author Graham Greene
10:17 The Characters & the Writing
29:56 The Films of the book
35:49 America's role in a changing world
41:21 The emergence to two Americas
43:21 Social media's impact on perspectives
44:15 Thoughts on cross cultural awareness
45:45 America's cultural, economic & sociological footprint
48:20 Is education responsible for a lack of understanding
54:38 Challenges of multi cultural interactions
56:56 The Reading Experience of the book

BOOKTUBERS MENTIONED:
Steve Donoghue - @saintdonoghue youtube.com/@saintdonoghue
Shelly Swearingen - @Shellyish youtube.com/@Shellyish

BOOKS MENTIONED:
Graham Greene - The Quiet American
Graham Greene - Collected novels
Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene - The End of the Affair
Graham Greene - Complete Short Stories
Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote
John Le Carre - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Rory Stewart - The Places In Between

PODCASTS MENTIONED : The Rest Is Politics (Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell)

FILM VERSIONS:
1958: The Quiet American (Michael Redgrave, Audie Murphy) dir Joseph L Mankiewicz
2002 The Quiet American (Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser) dir Phillip Noyce