Bob Gahagan tells me via e-mail that he has a book he’d like to recommend on this blog, but he couldn’t figure out where to place his comment.
Seeing as how the book in question is Tom Friedman‘s latest, and seeing also as how I was recently presented with a copy of it and have not had a chance to open it yet, and considering that I am one of Mr. Friedman’s biggest fans, I’m particularly interested to see what Bob and others who’ve read it have to say about it.
So how about here? The discussion thread begins now…
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Brad, I just came across another viewpoint on Thomas Friedman, your guru for economic globalization and justification of the Iraq War disaster.
The Nation, by GEORGE SCIALABBA
I have encouraged Brad to read Tom Friedman’s latest book, “The World is Flat”, and I also encourage Tom (above) to do the same. Often times we dismiss someone’s viewpoint because of our perceived idea of their political tendencies. Friedman has been as critical of the President as he has been the “guru of economic globalization and justification of the Iraq war”.
The 2 reviews sited by Brad and Tom Turnipseed are sufficient to cover the details of the book so I won’t repeat the remarks of professionals. Friedman is more reporter here than he is analyst. The day the book was published in April I was watching his appearance on “The Charlie Rose Show”. Most of that interview revolved around what Friedman calls, “The Ten Forces That Flattened The World”. What caught my attention was that he said he could find no one in political Washington that could speak to these issues that most of the rest of the “new world” seems to understand.
We can put our heads in the sand but the rest of the “new world” will be marching on. Friedman, as a 3 time Pulitzer Prize winner, outlines what is happening and what we can do about it. Read it and it will change the way you look at what is happening in India, China and the expanding “new world”.
Permit me to refer your readers to this classic piece on Mr. Friedman: http://tinyurl.com/atm8j