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Hot, flat, and crowded [LP] why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America

Examines America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.

Main Author:	Friedman, Thomas L.
Format:	Books Print Book Large Print
Language:	English
Published:	Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008, c2007.
Edition:	Large print ed.
Subjects:	Oldham, Helen G. tribute. Green movement. Green technology. Climatic changes. Power resources > Environmental aspects. Environmental policy > United states. Energy policy > United States. United States > Environmental conditions. United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020. Large print books.

Summary:	Examines America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Item Description:	"Unabridged"--T.p. verso. Originally published: New York, NY : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
Physical Description:	775 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:	9781410407078 1410407071
Author Notes:	Journalist Thomas L. Friedman was born in 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Friedman graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean Studies and earned a graduate degree from Oxford in Modern Middle East Studies. His reporting on the war in Lebanon won the George Polk Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He won a second Pulitzer for his work in Israel. Friedman began his career as a correspondent for United Press International and later served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Beirut and Jerusalem. He moved to the op-ed page of The New York Times as a foreign affairs columnist. In 2002, Friedman won his third Pulitzer Prize, this time for Commentary. Friedman wrote about his experiences as a Jewish-American reporter in the Middle East in From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award in 1989. The bestselling Lexus and the Olive Tree won the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. He wrote Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 and The World Is Flat, which received the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His other works include Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0, and That Used to Be Us which made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. His title, Thank You for Being Late, made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography)

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