That Used To Be Us: What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back - Hardcover

Friedman, Thomas; Mandelbaum, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408703580 ISBN 13: 9781408703588

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2011

Synopsis

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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Review:

"At once enlightened and enlightening...[American society] could use more of the generous responsible spirit Friedman and Mandelbaum recommend."--The New York Times Book Review "Thoroughly researched and passionately argued...That Used to Be Us is an important contribution to an intensifying debate, and it deserves the widest possible attention....Compelling."--The New York Times "Anyone who cares about America's future---anyone planning to vote in 2012---ought to read this book and hear the authors' compelling case."--The Christian Science Monitor "An important and eminently readable book."--The New York Review of Books "Touches a nerve...In a country whose politicians are partisan intransigents and whose commentators are more interested in zingers than solutions, it takes courage to be so baldly civic-minded."--BusinessWeek

At once enlightened and enlightening...[American society] could use more of the generous responsible spirit Friedman and Mandelbaum recommend. "The New York Times Book Review"

Thoroughly researched and passionately argued...That Used to Be Us is an important contribution to an intensifying debate, and it deserves the widest possible attention....Compelling. "The New York Times"

Anyone who cares about America's future---anyone planning to vote in 2012---ought to read this book and hear the authors' compelling case. "The Christian Science Monitor"

An important and eminently readable book. "The New York Review of Books"

Touches a nerve...In a country whose politicians are partisan intransigents and whose commentators are more interested in zingers than solutions, it takes courage to be so baldly civic-minded. "BusinessWeek""

At once enlightened and enlightening...[American society] could use more of the generous responsible spirit Friedman and Mandelbaum recommend. The New York Times Book Review

Thoroughly researched and passionately argued...That Used to Be Us is an important contribution to an intensifying debate, and it deserves the widest possible attention....Compelling. The New York Times

Anyone who cares about America's future---anyone planning to vote in 2012---ought to read this book and hear the authors' compelling case. The Christian Science Monitor

An important and eminently readable book. The New York Review of Books

Touches a nerve...In a country whose politicians are partisan intransigents and whose commentators are more interested in zingers than solutions, it takes courage to be so baldly civic-minded. BusinessWeek

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"At once enlightened and enlightening...[American society] could use more of the generous responsible spirit Friedman and Mandelbaum recommend." --The New York Times Book Review

"Thoroughly researched and passionately argued...That Used to Be Us is an important contribution to an intensifying debate, and it deserves the widest possible attention....Compelling." --The New York Times

"Anyone who cares about America's future---anyone planning to vote in 2012---ought to read this book and hear the authors' compelling case." --The Christian Science Monitor

"An important and eminently readable book." --The New York Review of Books

"Touches a nerve...In a country whose politicians are partisan intransigents and whose commentators are more interested in zingers than solutions, it takes courage to be so baldly civic-minded." --BusinessWeek

-At once enlightened and enlightening...[American society] could use more of the generous responsible spirit Friedman and Mandelbaum recommend.- --The New York Times Book Review

-Thoroughly researched and passionately argued...That Used to Be Us is an important contribution to an intensifying debate, and it deserves the widest possible attention....Compelling.- --The New York Times

-Anyone who cares about America's future---anyone planning to vote in 2012---ought to read this book and hear the authors' compelling case.- --The Christian Science Monitor

-An important and eminently readable book.- --The New York Review of Books

-Touches a nerve...In a country whose politicians are partisan intransigents and whose commentators are more interested in zingers than solutions, it takes courage to be so baldly civic-minded.- --BusinessWeek

Book Description:

Pulitzer prize-winning, globally bestselling author charts America's fall from power and influence - and assesses its paths ahead

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1408703580
• ISBN 13: 9781408703588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400