(P/B) THAT USED TO BE US

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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. (From the publisher)

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Preface: It's Half-Time in America
PART I: THE DIAGNOSIS
If You See Something, Say Something
Ignoring Our Problems
Ignoring Our History
PART II: THE EDUCATION CHALLENGE
Up in the Air
Help Wanted
Homework x 2 = The American Dream
Average Is Over 133
PART III: THE WAR ON MATH AND PHYSICS
"This Is Our Due"
The War on Math (and the Future)
The War on Physics and Other Good Things
PART IV: POLITICAL FAILURE
The Terrible Twos
"Whatever It Is, I'm Against It"
Devaluation
PART V: REDISCOVERING AMERICA
They Just Didn't Get the Word
Shock Therapy
Rediscovering America
Acknowledgments
Index