That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Friedman, Thomas L. and Michael Mandelbaum

ISBN 10: 0374288909 / ISBN 13: 9780374288907

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011

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First edition, 2011, stated; first printing, full number line. Signed by coauthor Friedman on the front endpaper: "Thomas Friedman." The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine lightly bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $28.00); Brodart protected.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374288909
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374288907
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

New York. 24 cm. xiv, 380 pages. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. Includes index. Contents If you see something, say something -- Ignoring our problems -- Ignoring our history -- Up in the air -- Help wanted -- Homework x 2 = the American dream -- Average is over -- This is our due -- The war on math (and the future) -- The war on physics and on other good things -- The terrible twos -- The war between the parties -- Show me the money -- Devaluation -- They just didn't get the word -- Shock therapy -- Rediscovering America .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9780374288907; 0374288909

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.