America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them.
That Used To Be Us: What Went Wrong With America analyses those challenges – globalisation, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption – and spells out what needs to be done now to rediscover America’s power and prowess.
The authors explain how the end of the Cold War blinded the nation and show how America’s history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explains how the paralysis of the U.S. political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs.