That Used To Be Us
What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back
Published on 7. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-349-00009-1 (ISBN)
Description
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover America's power and prowess.
They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how America's history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the US political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs. What's Wrong with America? is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.
They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how America's history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the US political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs. What's Wrong with America? is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.
Reviews / Votes
'A fascinating, chilling book. This book is daunting because it doesn't only apply to superpower America but to shrunken-power UK' Observer 'Aiming to fill the gap they think Obama has left, Friedman and Mandelbaum present an ambitious programme for retooling America' Financial Times 'Few could fundamentally disagree with the authors' diagnosis' IndependentMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-349-00009-1 (9780349000091)
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Thomas Friedman | Michael Mandelbaum
That Used To Be Us
What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back
E-Book
09/2011
Abacus
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Thomas Friedman | Michael Mandelbaum
That Used To Be Us
What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back
Book
09/2011
Little, Brown
€51.00
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Persons
Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times. Michael Mandelbaum is director of the American Foreign Policy program at Johns Hopkins.