That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back
Charlie Rose interviews Tom Friedman
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Thomas Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, analyzes current challenges we face—globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits and its pattern of energy consumption—and spells out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
Thomas Friedman will be selling and signing copies of That Used to be Us and The Lexus and the Olive Tree following the event.
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Brief Biography
Tom Friedman, considered one of America's Best Leaders by US News & World Report, is the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. He has covered monumental stories from around the globe for The New York Times since 1981.
Charlie Rose is an Emmy Award–winning American journalist born on Jan 5, 1942, in Henderson, North Carolina. Rose worked for Bill Moyers at PBS and as an NBC News political correspondent before launching his own PBS interview show in 1991. Rose worked as a 60 Minutes correspondent throughout the 1990s and was named co-host of CBS This Morning in 2011.
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