That Used to Be Us

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That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
AuthorThomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
PublisherPicador

That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a nonfiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a writer and foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. They published the book on September 5, 2011, in the United States. It addresses what the authors see as the four major problems America faces today, and possible solutions. These problems are defined as: globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption.[1][2]

Praise appeared in The Christian Science Monitor as well as Friedman's home paper, The New York Times,[2][3] while criticism appeared in The Wall Street Journal.[1]

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