THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN is a recipeint of the American Bar Association's D'Alemberte-Raven Award for outstanding service in dispute resolution, and a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The World Is Flat.
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now
One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Year
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of
the Year Award "Thomas L. Friedman is a self--confessed
'explanatory journalist'--whose goal is to be a 'translator from
English to English.' And he is extremely good at it . . . it is
hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many
complicated subjects to so many people . . . Now he has written his
most ambitious book--part personal odyssey, part commonsense
manifesto . . . As a guide for perplexed Westerners, this book is
very hard to beat." --John Micklethwait, The New York Times Book
Review "[An] ambitious book . . . In a country torn by a divisive
election, technological change and globalization, reconstructing
social ties so that people feel respected and welcomed is more
important than ever . . . Rather than build walls, [healthy
communities] face their problems and solve them. In [Friedman's]
telling, this is the way to make America great." --Laura Vanderkam,
The Wall Street Journal "Engaging . . . in some senses Thank You
For Being Late is an extension of [Friedman's] previous works,
woven in with wonderful personal stories (including admirably
honest discussions about the nature of being a columnist). What
gives Friedman's book a new twist is his belief that upheaval in
2016 is actually far more dramatic than earlier phases . . .
Friedman also argues that Americans need to discover their sense of
'community, ' and uses his home town of Minneapolis to demonstrate
this." --Gillian Tett, Financial Times
"The globe-trotting New York Times columnist's most famous book was
about the world being flat. This one is all about the world being
fast . . . His main piece of advice for individuals, corporations,
and countries is clear: Take a deep breath and adapt. This world
isn't going to wait for you." --Fortune "[A] humane and empathetic
book." --David Henkin, The Washington Post "[Friedman's] latest
engrossingly descriptive analysis of epic trends and their
consequences . . . Friedman offers tonic suggestions for fostering
'moral innovation' and a commitment to the common good in this
detailed and clarion inquiry, which, like washing dirty windows,
allows us to see far more clearly what we've been looking at all
along . . . his latest must-read." --Booklist (starred review) "The
three-time Pulitzer winner puts his familiar methodology--extensive
travel, thorough reporting, interviews with the high-placed movers
and shakers, conversations with the lowly moved and shaken--to
especially good use here . . . He prescribes nothing less than a
redesign of our workplaces, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and
communities . . . Required reading for a generation that's 'going
to be asked to dance in a hurricane.'" --Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)
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