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A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller
"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat…
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When this book was published at the dawn of the 21st century, it opened eyes to the reality that the America-dominated world order was about to take a seismic shift. It also knocked Americans off their complacent pedestals.
Soviet Union had disintegrated a decade earlier, and China was only beginning to emerge from its Third World status. America dominated in virtually every sector of the international arena. While many Americans continue to turn a blind eye to the message in this book, I found it to be totally convincing.
Now 20 years later, I would call it prophetic. In the…
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