The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century: Release 3.0: Further Updated and Expanded

Friedman, Thomas L.

ISBN 10: 0374292787 / ISBN 13: 9780374292782

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007

About this Item

First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on a Global Leadership Meeting 2008 bookplate on the front endpaper: "Thomas Friedman." The book is unmarked; spine slant; corners and spine ends unbumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $35.00); Brodart protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century: Release 3.0: Further Updated and Expanded
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374292787
• ISBN 13: 9780374292782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This new edition of Friedman's landmark book explains the flattening of the world better than ever- and takes a new measure of the effects of this change on each of us.

About the Authors

Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times, where he serves as the foriegn affairs columnist. He is the author of three previous books, all of them best-sellers: From Beirut to Jerusalem; winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction; The Lexus and the Olive Tree; and Longitudes and Attitudes. In 2005 The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Golden Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.

Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist—the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of five bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.

He was born in Minneapolis in 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies, attended St. Antony's College, Oxford, on a Marshall Scholarship, and received an M.Phil. degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford.

After three years with United Press International, he joined The New York Times, where he has worked ever since as a reporter, correspondent, bureau chief, and columnist. At the Times, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1983 for international reporting (from Lebanon), in 1988 for international reporting (from Israel), and in 2002 for his columns after the September 11th attacks.

Friedman’s first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1989. His second book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999), won the Overseas Press Club Award for best book on foreign policy in 2000. In 2002 FSG published a collection of his Pulitzer Prize-winning columns, along with a diary he kept after 9/11, as Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. His fourth book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) became a #1 New York Times bestseller and received the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in November 2005. A revised and expanded edition was published in hardcover in 2006 and in 2007. The World Is Flat has sold more than 4 million copies in thirty-seven languages.

In 2008 he brought out Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which was published in a revised edition a year later. His sixth book, That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, will be published in September 2011.

Thomas L. Friedman lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.