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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 That Used to Be Us , Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges—globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nationвЂTMs chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption—and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment. They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues. They show howВ our history, when properly understood, provides the key to addressing them, and explain how the paralysis of our political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible for us to carry out the policies the country needs. They offer a way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, which includes the rediscovery of some of our most valuable traditions and the creation of a new, third-party movement. That Used to Be Us is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal. “As
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- Author
- Friedman, Thomas L., Mandelbaum, Michael
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429995115
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Technology
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (432 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- That used to be us : how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back (2012)
- That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World We Invented-- and How We Can Come Back (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) (2011)
- That Used To Be Us: What Went Wrong With America - And How It Can Come Back. By Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011)
- That Used to Be Us: What Went Wrong with America - And How It Can Come Back. Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (2012)
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