That Used to Be Us
by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
America's four challenges, globalization, IT, deficits, energy, and the formula that once worked: education, infrastructure, immigration, research, regulation. A call to renewal.
Read it if…
you want a bipartisan diagnosis of American drift.
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you want partisan fire.
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Three things you will actually use
- Return to the formula.
- Invest in the future.
- Shock therapy or slow decline.
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Read the chapter on the formula.
Our verdict
Friedman's renewal.
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