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Description
2006 Audie® Award Winner - Non-Fiction, Unabridged
In The World Is Flat, award-winning journalist Thomas Friedman demystified our brave new world, allowing readers to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before our eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explained how the "flattening" of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century, what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals, and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. For this updated and expanded edition, Friedman has provided more than three hours of new reporting and commentary, bringing fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. The World Is Flat is a timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
Distance has been annihilated. Your X rays are sent to India, your job to China. In a flat world the U.S. must seize every technological advantage and put the "oomph" we gave the moon shot into breaking our oil habit. (Although the writer suspects that he will be sent to the moon before "W." gets the message.) Narrator Oliver Wyman does a superb job. First he's the irrepressible American, then the Indian gentleman, and finally the Chinese whose English is formal but broken. The audiobook technology that enables us to take in so much information while caught in traffic or scrubbing a pan is precisely the sort of handhold Friedman would urge us all to grasp, and with both hands. B.H.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award 2006 Audie Award Winner (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
Washington Post Book World...
"We've no real idea how the 21st century's history will unfold, but this terrifically stimulating book will certainly inspire readers to start thinking it all through."
About the Author
Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times, where he serves as foreign affairs columnist. He is the author of three bestselling books: From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the National Book Award; The Lexus and the Olive Tree; and Longitudes and Attitudes. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
