That Used To Be Us
What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back
Little, Brown (Publisher)
Published on 8. September 2011
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-4087-0358-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4087-0358-8 (9781408703588)
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Thomas Friedman | Michael Mandelbaum
That Used To Be Us
What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back
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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.