Screen LibraryThat used to be us：how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 380 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
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9780374288907 (hbk.) 0374288909 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D771 |
| CLC: | D771.2 |
| Call Number: | D771.2/F911 |
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Includes index. If you see something, say something -- Ignoring our problems -- Ignoring our history -- Up in the air -- Help wanted -- Homework x 2 = the American dream -- Average is over -- "This is our due" -- The war on math (and the future) -- The war on physics and other good things -- The terrible twos -- "Whatever it is, I'm against it" -- Devaluation -- They just didn't get the word -- Shock therapy -- Rediscovering America. This book makes recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States, including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits, and unbalanced energy consumption. America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In this book the authors 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 prowes |