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

by Thomas Friedman

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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.

  • ISBN10 9862168803
  • ISBN13 9789862168806
  • Publish Date 16 January 2012 (first published 8 September 2011)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 August 2021
  • Imprint Tian Xia Wen Hua
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 480
  • Language Chinese