That used to be us
Subtitle: how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back
By: Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Contributors: Mandelbaum, Michael
Publisher: Large Print Press/Gale,Cengage Learning
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 694
ISBN-13: 9781594135569
Subjects: Creative ability; Education and state; Information technology
Other titles: How America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back
Description: Friedman and Mandelbaum make recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States, including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits, and unbalanced energy consumption.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Growing up in America; title: The diagnosis. If you see something, say something ; Ignoring our problems ; Ignoring our history; title: The education challenge. Up in the air ; Help wanted ; Homework x 2 = the American dream ; Average is over; title: 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; title: Political failure. The terrible twos ; "Whatever it is, I'm against it" ; Devaluation; title: Rediscovering America.  They just didn't get the word ; Shock therapy ; Rediscovering America.