Starving for your job.(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, June, 2005 by Kuttner, Robert
THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 496 pages, $27.50
I OPENED THOMAS FRIEDMAN'S THE World Is Flat expecting another paean to globalization, and though it surely is that, this book is also a well-reported, original, and nuanced discussion that every liberal needs to read, as much for its instructive omissions as for it insights and caveats. (Note to Farrar, Straus and Giroux marketing department: Do not quote that sentence except in its entirety.)
Friedman compellingly demonstrates why several ...
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