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Title: “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”
Authors: Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Rank: 13
Blurb: “They offer a way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, which includes the rediscovery of some of our most valuable traditions and the creation of a new, third-party movement.”
Review: “One particularly good example for why a different way of thinking and approaching problems is needed comes from Friedman’s discussions with Byron Auguste, a managing director with McKinsey & Company.”
Customers Also Bought: “On China”, by Henry Kissinger
Footnote: There’s nothing wrong with our parties that a different population wouldn’t fix.
That Used to Be Us [Fuck Amazon]
McKinsey? Really? Considering much of the decline was based on listening to their stupid ideas in the first place.
Failure is their best product.
From the summary, it looks like this could be replaced with a pamphlet that had “disband the GOP” written inside of it…
Ah … the third way. That’s what brought us DOMA, among other shit shows.
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