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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
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Include books by the same authorThank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Thomas L. Friedman · 528 pages
Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loos) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman p
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
Tim Schwab · 496 pages
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Arianna Huffington · 276 pages
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama · 384 pages
Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein · 264 pages
Journalist Naomi Klein explains that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century.
End This Depression Now!
Paul Krugman · 288 pages
A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize?winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old, and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge, all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all, remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? H
Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix them
Robert B. Reich · 151 pages
Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Noam Chomsky · 231 pages
In Profit Over People Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism, the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. By examining the contradictions between the democratic and market principles proclaimed by those in power and those actually practiced, Chomsky critiques the tyranny of the few that restricts the public arena and enacts policies tha
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren · 352 pages
"Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
Tim Wu · 224 pages
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt · 256 pages
In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to socia
Who Stole the American Dream?
Hedrick Smith · 579 pages
Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.
The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria · 314 pages
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cu
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin · 816 pages
In this gripping account of the quest for the energy that our world needs, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize. A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change. It is a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
John B. Judis · 182 pages
"Is the West witnessing a huge political upheaval? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, in a stunning rebuke; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican Party; and a slew of rebellious parties continued to win election after election i
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Dambisa Moyo · 188 pages
In "Dead Aid," Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa that has channeled billions of dollars in aid but failed to reduce poverty and increase growth. He offers a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
John R. Lott Jr. · 321 pages
Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 528 pages
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
Martin Jacques · 699 pages
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.
Cuentos Chinos: El engaño de Washington, la mentira populista y la esperanza de América Latina
Andres Oppenheimer · 352 pages
Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry
Dylan Ratigan · 245 pages
To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what has gone wrong--but join together to make it right.