Peace Corps
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on
Pearlstein, Steven
Peking University
Pell Grants
Pence, Mike
Pentagon; terrorist attack on, see September 11
People magazine
People of Plenty (Potter)
People’s Daily
Perez, Raul
Perino, Dana
Perkins Pancake House (Minneapolis)
Perot, H. Ross
personal computers (PCs)
Pew Charitable Trusts; Center on the States; Clean Energy Program; Research Center for the People & the Press
Philadelphia Eagles football team
physics; laws of; waging war on
Picasa
PIMCO
Pink, Daniel
Planned Parenthood
Plutarch
Poland
Policker, Shai
Pope, Jeremy C.
Porter, Captain Wayne
Portugal
Potter, David
PowerPoints
Pradesh, Andhra
Precautionary Principle
Price of Liberty, A (Hormats)
Price of Loyalty, The (Suskind)
Prince, Charles
Princeton University
Procter & Gamble
Progressive era
Progressive Party
ProPublica
Public Policy Institute of California
public-private partnerships
Puranik, Arjun Ranganath
R
Race Between Education and Technology, The (Goldin and Katz)
Race to Nowhere (movie)
Rajan, Raghuram
Rand, Ayn
Rapert, Molly
Rasmussen Reports
Rauh, Joshua
Reagan, Ronald
recycling
Red Flags or Red Herrings? (Engel)
RedPrairie
Reed, Kasim
Reed College
regulations; climate change and; economic; environnmental; local; recycling
Reichert, Jeff
Reid, Harry
Reinhart, Carmen
Religious Independence, Virginia statute for
Rendell, Ed
Republican Party; campaign contributions to; economic and fiscal policies of; energy and climate policies of; immigration policy of; news media and; origins of; polarization of Democratic Party and; Tea Party and
research and development; in China; energy; investment in; outsourcing of facilities for; public-private partnership and
Reset (Andersen)
Reuters News Service
Reva Electric Car Company
Rhee, Michelle
Ringwald, Alexis
Ripon Society
Rise and Decline of Nations, The (Olson)
Ritter, Bill
Robinson, Ken
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rocky Mountain Institute
Rodgers, Daniel T.
Rogoff, Kenneth
Rolling Stone magazine
Roman Empire
Romm, Joseph
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosen, Amy
Rosenberg, Diane
Rosenberg, Mark
Ross, Benjamin
Rubenstein, David
Russia; communist, see Soviet Union
S
St. Louis
Samuelson, Robert
Sandel, Michael J.
San Diego (California)
San Francisco Chronicle
Sarles, Richard
Saturday Night Live (television series)
Saturn V rocket
Saudi Arabia
Savage, Michael
Schapiro, Morton Owen
Schell, Orville
Schilling, Curt
Schleicher, Andreas
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
Schuck, Peter
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
science; of climate change; education in; jobs in; see also physics
Science magazine
Seattle (Washington)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Second Civil War, The (Brownstein)
Secret Service
Securities Act (1933)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Seib, Gerald
Seidman, Dov
Senate, U.S.; campaigning for; climate change legislation in; Environment and Public Works Committee; Finance Committee; partisan polarization in
September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)
Shahmirian, Sarine Gayaneh
“Sham News Network” (SNN)
Shanghai
Sharma, Sunanda
Sharma, Virender K.
Shi, Katheryn Cheng
Shiite Muslims
Shriver, Sargent
Shriver, Timothy
Shultz, George
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
Silicon Valley
Simpson, Alan
Simpsonville (South Carolina)
Singapore; education in
Singh, Kartikeya
Sinha, Abhinav
Sinha, Abhishek
Sirsi (India)
situational values
60 Minutes (television series)
Skype
Smithsonian magazine
Socialist Party
Social Network, The (movie)
social networks; see also Facebook; Twitter
social safety net
Social Security; cuts in; federal deficits and costs of; partisan politics and; Reagan’s reform of
So Damn Much Money (Kaiser)
Soffer, Edy
Soil Science Society of America
solar energy; Chinese investment in; declining cost of; for electric cars; for low-income housing
Somalia
Sorbonne
Sosa, Sammy
South Africa
South Carolina
South Korea
Southwest Airlines
Soviet Union; invasion of Afghanistan by; launch of Sputnik 1 by
Spain
Special Olympics
Spelman College
Splinter, Mike
Spruance (Virginia)
Sputnik
Sridhar, K. R.
SRI International
Stanford University; Hoover Institution
Starr, Kevin
State Bank of India
State Department, U.S.
Stevens, George, Jr.
Stevenson, Charles
Stevenson, Robert
Stevenson, Wade
Stewart, Jon
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Stockman, David
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams)
subprime crisis
Suh, Jane Yoonhae
Summers, Lawrence
Sumner, Charles
Sun, Benjamin Chang
Sunni Muslims
Sunstein, Cass
Sununu, John
Suresh, Subra
Suskind, Ron
Sustainable Oils
sustainable values
Switzerland
Syria
T
Taft, William Howard
Taiwan
Taliban
Tan Kong Yam
Tanner, Michael
Taubert, Krista
Teach for America (TFA)
Tea Party
Teapot Dome scandal
Teda Construction Group
Ten9Eight (documentary)
Tennessee
terrorism; see also al-Qaeda; September 11, 2001
Texas
text messaging
Thatcher, Margaret
Third Way
This Time Is Different (Rogoff and Reinhart)
Thompson, Mark
3M Corporation
Three Mile Island nuclear accident
Thurmond, Strom
Tianjin Meijiang International Convention and Exhibition Center
Time magazine
Times (London)
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Toltz, James
Touch of Evil (movie)
Toyota Prius
Tracy (California)
Treasury, U.S.
Treasury Department, U.S.
Trek Bicycle Corporation
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Truman, Harry S.
Tsinghua University
Tucker, Marc
Tunisia
Turkey
Tuscaloosa (Alabama)
Tuskegee Airmen
24/7 Customer
Twitter
Tyler, John
U
UBS
Ukraine
Unbound Arts
Union of Concerned Scientists
United Airlines
United Auto Workers (UAW)
United Nations; Food and Agriculture Organization; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
universal health care
Up in the Air (movie)
Uruguay
USA Network
Utah
V
Valdez, Daniel
Vallejo (California)
values; erosion of; in military; shared; situational; sustainable
Vancouver
Velic, Zermina
venture capitalists
Vertical Transportation Excellence
Vest, Charles
Veterans Administration (VA)
Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Viniar, David
Virginia; colonial; Statute for Religious Freedom
Virginia, University of
Vivian, James R.
Voinovich, George
Volcker, Paul
Volpe, Ralph
von Hippel, Eric
VUCA (volatility, unpredictability, complexity, ambiguity) ratings
W
Wadhwa, Vivek
Wagner, Tony
Walker, David
Wallace, George
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protect Act (2010)
Washington, D.C.; high-speed train from New York to; public school system; snowy winters in; terrorist attack on, see September 11, 2001; transit system in
Washington, George
Washington magazine
Washington Post
Washington Wizards basketball team
Watergate scandal
Waterloo, Battle of
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill
Weekly Standard
Weingarten, Randi
Welles, Orson
Wellington, Duke of
West Alabama Chamber of Commerce
Whalen, Bill
Whig Party
Whitney, Meredith
Whole New Mind, A (Pink)
Wichita (Kansas)
Wiki
WikiLeaks
Wikipedia
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Tennessee
Williams College
Wilmington (Delaware)
Wilson, Woodrow
wind power
Winklevoss, Cameron and Tyler
Wired magazine
Wisconsin
Wisconsin, University of
World Bank
World Economic Forum (Tianjin, China; 2010)
World Is Flat, The (Friedman)
World Series
World Trade Center, terrorist attack on, see September 11, 2001
World War I
World War II; African American aviators in; economy during; scientific research during; veterans of
World Wide Web
WTOP radio station
X
Xi’an (China)
Xu, Kevin Young
Y
Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute
Yale University; Law School; School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Ye, Lynnelle Lin
Yemen
Yeung, Angela Yu-Yun
Ying, Lori
YouTube
Z
Zellweger, Renée
Zhang Huamei
Zhao, Alice Wei
Zhou, Linda
Zimbabwe
Zuckerberg, Mark
Zynga
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times and is the author of five bestselling books, including The World Is Flat (2005). Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, is the author or co-author of twelve books, including The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century (2002).
Copyright © 2011 by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material: Graph on page 129 courtesy of The New York Times, Copyright © 2010 The New York Times. Graph on page 230 courtesy of The Washington Post, © April 30, 2011 The Washington Post. Maps on page 251 courtesy of “Zombie,” an Xpress Blogger for Pajamas Media at www.pajamasmedia.com.
Lyrics from “Fallin’ And Flyin,’” words and music by Stephen Bruton and Gary Nicholson, Copyright © 2009, 2010 Brutunes (BMI), administered by Bug Music, Sony/ ATV Music Publishing LLC and Gary Nicholson Music LLC. All rights on behalf of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC and Gary Nicholson Music LLC administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Friedman, Thomas L.
That used to be us : how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back / Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.—1st ed. p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Creative ability—United States. 2. Education and state—United States.
3. Information technology—Social aspects—United States. I. Mandelbaum, Michael. II. Title.
BF408.F747 2011
973.932—dc23
2011020814
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