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

Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedm...

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Main Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
Other Authors: Wyman, Oliver.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2008.
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Energy policy > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
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Summary: Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure. Hot, Flat and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman-fearless, incisive, forwardlooking, and rich in surprising common sense about the world we live in today. Follow up to a true audio phenomenon. The World is Flat won the 2006 Audie Award for unabridged nonfiction.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (17 audio files) : digital
Playing Time: 20::5:4:
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ISBN: 9781427220639
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.

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