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Author:

Friedman, Thomas L.

Title:

That used to be us : how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back / Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.

Edition:

Large print ed.

Publisher:

Large Print Press,

Copyright Date:

2012, c2011

Description:

694 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Creative ability--United States.
Large type books.
Education and state--United States.
Information technology--Social aspects--United States.
Creative ability.
Large print books.
Education--Government policy--United States.
Information technology--United States--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Mandelbaum, Michael.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011.

Summary:

Analyzes four major challenges the United States is facing--globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and excessive energy consumption--and explains why these problems needed to be corrected now in order to sustain the American dream and protect America's place as a world power in the future.

Indexed by:

Booklist starred, October 2011
New York Times, September 2011
Library Journal web only, August 2011

ISBN:

1594135568
9781594135569 (pbk.)

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

XGPC697 -- Villisca Public Library (Villisca)