Unabridged Audiobook
For people confused about the state of the United States today and how did we get to where we are so quickly, this is a great book to show the wrong turns america took. But it also illustrates the path to our salvation from doom. We have it within US to save America. We just need to do it.
Possibly the most important book of the 21st century thus far. A rational prescription for America's future. Every member of Congress and the White House should be locked in a room and required to listen to it until it sinks in.
I had a hard time returning this audio book; it was SO GOOD. but i see it's not for sale and ok, i want to listen to other books. But this should be REQUIRED listening/reading for every American who needs to hear our real state of the union, a country painfully in decline which must re-invent itself to thrive in the 21st century. As the authors say: education, immigration, infrastructure, energy research & development in the modern world of IT and the internet. Mr. Friedman told us years ago, "the world is flat", which meant everyone could now compete more universally, which resulted in many nations surpassing America in all of the above. We have to educate our children better, demand more of ourselves, sacrifice more, compromise politically (between our 2 dysfunctional parties), raise taxes, cut some entitlements, and raise the bar of our competitive skills again if we want to be the country that "used to be us".
This book was fascinating and frustrating. It points out among other things, how detrimental the polarization of the Republican and Democratic parties over the past several years has been for our country. There is so much food for thought in this book not only about why we as a country are not what we used to be but what kind of political, environmental and educational chanes we need to make if we are to succeed again.
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