Thomas L. Friedman
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Werken van Thomas L. Friedman
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (2008) 3,278 exemplaren
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (2016) 1,040 exemplaren
Wat is er mis met Amerika? hoe een supermacht achterop raakte en hoe zij terug kan komen (2011) 700 exemplaren
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Friedman, Thomas L. (2005)… 11 exemplaren
LA PUCE ET L'OLIVIER,Comprendre la mondialisation 2 exemplaren
The Energy Mandate (Article) 1 exemplaar
From Beirut to Jerusalem (audio abridged) 1 exemplaar
Obrigado pelo atraso - eBook 1 exemplaar
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- 1953-07-20
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- St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
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- Brandeis University (BA ∙ Mediterranean studies ∙ 1975)
University of Minnesota
St Antony's College, University of Oxford (M.Phil ∙ 1978 | Middle Eastern studies)
American University in Cairo
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- Marshall Scholar
Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1983)
Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1988)
Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 2002)
Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime achievement (2004)
Officer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2004) (toon alle 11)
George Polk Award (1982)
Overseas Press Club Award (2000)
American Philosophical Society (2003)
Golden Plate Award (2003)
National Book Award (1989)
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Book Description
Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked--how we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is “hot, flat, and crowded.” Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things--unless the United States steps up now and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green.
This is a great challenge, Friedman explains, but also a great opportunity, and one that America cannot afford to miss. Not only is American leadership the key to the healing of the earth; it is also our best strategy for the renewal of America.
In vivid, entertaining chapters, Friedman makes it clear that the green revolution we need is like no revolution the world has seen. It will be the biggest innovation project in American history; it will be hard, not easy; and it will change everything from what you put into your car to what you see on your electric bill. But the payoff for America will be more than just cleaner air. It will inspire Americans to something we haven’t seen in a long time--nation-building in America--by summoning the intelligence, creativity, boldness, and concern for the common good that are our nation’s greatest natural resources.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.… (meer)