Influential columnist Thomas Friedman previews new book

Philadelphia Inquirer, The, June, 2008 by Carlin Romano Inquirer Book Critic

LOS ANGELES - In 2005, he decided the world is flat. And the world, even though it's round, listened. Now he says the world's also getting real hot and crowded. And he's offering a complicated take on why we'd better move fast before globalization runs us over. Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times and super-influential author of the mega-selling  The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century  (Picador), is back - as an author, that is - with a new brief for the world.

On Friday here at BookExpo America (BEA), the annual meeting of the nation's publishers and booksellers, he gave BEA's keynote address, an advance look at his upcoming September book, now titled  Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution  (Farrar, Straus...