Time to Start Thinking by Edward Luce
Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.-Sir Ernest Rutherford, winner of the Nobel Prize in Nuclear Physics Time to Start Thinking is a book destined to spark debate among liberals and conservatives alike. Drawing on his decades of exceptional journalism and his connections within Washington and around the world, Luce advances a carefully constructed and controversial argument, backed up by interviews with many of the key players in politics and business, that America is losing its pragmatism - and that the consequences of this may soon leave the country high and dry. Luce turns his attention to a number of different key issues that are set to affect America's position in the world order: the changing structure of the US economy, the continued polarization of American politics; the debilitating effect of the permanent election campaign; the challenges involved in the overhaul of the country's public education system; and the health-or sickliness-of American innovation in technology and business. His conclusion, An Exceptional Challenge looks at America's dwindling options in a world where the pace is increasingly being set elsewhere.Edward Luce worked as a speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and is currently the United States' top diplomat. With the Financial Times, he is a columnist. He lives in Washington, D.C., and is the author of the national best selling In Spite of the Gods.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802120212 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802120210 |
| Title | Time to Start Thinking |
| Author | Edward Luce |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2012-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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