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Friedman, an influential columnist, and Mandelbaum, a leading foreign policy thinker, analyze four American challenges--globalization, information technology, chronic deficits, and energy consumption--and show what America needs to do.

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.

Após o sucesso de seu bestseller anterior, Thomas L. Friedman oferece um olhar essencial sobre o futuro do mundo. Neste texto revelador, ele analisa a situação atual e propõe soluções para dois grandes desafios interligados: a falta de um foco nacional nos EUA após o 11 de Setembro e a crise ambiental global que afeta tudo, desde a alimentação até os recursos naturais. Friedman argumenta que o aquecimento global, o crescimento populacional acelerado e a expansão da classe média por meio da globalização resultaram em um planeta "Quente, Plano e Cheio". Ele alerta que essas condições estão tornando o mundo perigosamente instável e que, em poucos anos, será tarde demais para corrigir os problemas, a menos que os EUA liderem um esforço global para substituir práticas energéticas ineficientes por uma estratégia de energia limpa e sustentável, que ele chama de Código Verde. Com um discurso envolvente ao longo de 17 capítulos, Friedman destaca que a revolução verde é única e convida os leitores a refletirem sobre como cada um pode contribuir para a construção de um mundo melhor.

Il surriscaldamento del clima, lo stupefacente livellamento - favorito dalla globalizzazione - degli stili di vita di un numero crescente di persone e la brusca impennata demografica degli ultimi decenni hanno trasformato la Terra in un pianeta "caldo, piatto e affollato", alterando pericolosamente gli attuali equilibri naturali, sociali ed economici. Fra pochi anni, gli effetti del dissennato sfruttamento delle risorse e della produzione di quantità sempre maggiori di gas serra e altre sostanze inquinanti si mostreranno in tutta la loro drammaticità. Ma è ancora possibile fare qualcosa per scongiurare la catastrofe? E se sì, che cosa? È a questa domanda che Thomas L. Friedman, si propone di rispondere, accantonando le argomentazioni della retorica ambientalista e affondando impietosamente lo sguardo nelle molte negligenze - volontarie o involontarie - che hanno portato alla situazione attuale. Il primo passo da compiere per evitare la massiccia estinzione di specie vegetali e animali - con enormi ripercussioni anche sulla vita dell'uomo - è, a suo avviso, l'elaborazione e la rigorosa applicazione di una strategia sistemica in cui l'interazione delle scelte operative indispensabili crei i presupposti di una rivoluzione "verde" globale del modo di produrre e di vivere, che può costituire il volano per una crescita economica impetuosa.

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalisation? And with this flattening' of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in one place, has the world got too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century; what it means to countries, companies, communities and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.

Le monde est devenu plat. Sans frontières commerciales ni politiques, sous le double effet de la globalisation et de la révolution numérique. Parce qu'il s'est ouvert sous le signe du terrorisme et de la violence, nous pensions le XXIe siècle comme un nouveau siècle de conflits et d'affrontements. Erreur, l'explosion des technologies permet désormais à chacun d'entre nous de se connecter avec le partenaire de son choix pour une aventure commune. Mais attention ! Les vainqueurs de cette accélération de l'histoire ont changé. L'ère de l'Occident triomphant touche peut-être à sa fin. Le centre de gravité du monde s'est déplacé vers les start-up et les entrepreneurs conquérants de l'Asie avec, en première ligne, une Chine et une Inde hyper agressives qui rêvent de nous manger tout crus. Le livre qui a réveillé l'Amérique. Déjà 3 millions d'exemplaires vendus.

The explosion of advanced technologies, knowledge pools and resources that have connected over the planet levelling the playing field as never before, each of us is potentially an equal and competitor of the other.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding today’s radically new world and America’s complex place in it. Thomas L. Freidman received his third Pulitzer Prize in 2002 “for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat.” In Longitudes and Attitudes he gives us all of the columns he has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his post–September 11 travels. Updated for this new paperback edition, with over two years’ worth of Friedman’s columns and an expanded version of his diary, Longitudes and Attitudes is a broadly influential work from our most trusted observer of the international scene.

This title brings together reportage and reflections on the state of the world leading up to and after September 11, 2001. Thomas Friedman gives voice to our awakening sense of a radically new world and our own complex place in it.