The World Is Flat Updated and Expand..., Thomas L. Friedman
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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Author: Thomas L. Friedman

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Unabridged: 8 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2006


Synopsis

"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 in 2005. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman brilliantly demystifies the new flat world for listeners, making sense of the advances in technology and communications that challenge us to run even faster just to stay in place. For these updated and expanded editions, Friedman has added more hours of commentary, fresh stories and insights. New material includes:

• The reasons the flattening of the world "will be seen in time as one of those fundamental shifts or inflection points, like the invention of the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, or the Industrial Revolution"

• A mapping of the New Middle—the places and spaces in the flat world where middle-class jobs will be found—and portraits of the character types who will find success as New Middlers

• An account of the qualities American parents and teachers need to cultivate in young people so that they will be able to thrive in the flat world

• An account of the "globalization of the local": how the flattening of the world is actually strengthening local and regional identities rather than homogenizing the world

More than ever, The World Is Flat is an essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

Author Bio

Thomas Loren Friedman is a political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by John on 2011-02-27 19:15:59

First of all, this is a very easy audiobook to listen to. Not only the voice is smooth with the correct reflections, but time goes by while you listen. Not that Friedman is right all the time, he sometimes scores easy points with a New York Times audience and later is proved incorrect, however he does make interesting points, and in an interesting way. If you want a discussion on recent history especially with regards to wars, economics, and globalization, this is the book to listen to first.