|  | Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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Pages: 448
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ISBN: 0374166854
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Publication Date: September 8, 2008
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 Mush for the masses August 29, 2009
o'neal lane (louisiana, usa)
7 out of 23 found this review helpful
I really laugh when other review's here talk about how "thinking" persons should read this book, etc. I doubt there is much thinking going on, only "reading." True thinking persons are rare.
Mr Friedman, much like Mr. Gore, likes to preach to the "masses" about their energy use, carbon emission, etc. and lets be clear, these preachers do not indent to play by the rules they espouse for the masses. Both of thes men live in huge estates. Mr Friedmans estate, and palace dwarfs even Mr. Gores.
Wake up people and do some real thinking. They are con men, making lots of money off books and speaking tours. Stop being fooled. The earths enviroment is a history of change. This book is more baloney for the masses.
I used to think Mr. Friedman great writer, but Mr. Friedman 'you're no John Steinback' not even close! August 26, 2009
bdprog (Kenockee, MI United States)
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
Mr. Friedman comments on globalization, and has written several books. Two of which I have purchased, "The World is Flat" which I read shortly after it came out, and "Hot, Flat and Crowded" which I bought late last year and finished reading last month.
And you know what I agree with him, on much of the globalization happening in this world. We have to become competitive, we have to become better educated, we have to become greener and we must be leaders in this new green incentive.
Now I almost threw his latest book, when he mentioned early on, "Congress, spurred on by the Michigan congressional delegation - which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Big Three automakers and the United Auto Workers - literally gagged and blindfolded the government when it came to improving mileage standards", into the fire. Not just being from Michigan I take offense, and I have lived several years in a 'right to work state', Florida.
However, though many of Mr. Friedman's premises I agree with, this one I do not. I can't imagine that Tom has lived in Michigan or in a neighboring automotive state like Ohio.
He says GM and Chrysler should go under and start over, (New York Times Editorial-earlier this year [2009]) shows his naivety. He hasn't seen the suffering of the cities of Port Huron, which has over 20% unemployment, yes twice as high as Michigan's 'coveted' number one spot in the unemployment picture, as I say coveted in a sarcastic voice.In Dbusiness,(Detroit business magazine) March/April 2009 issue, on the cover is a letter to President Obama. The title is $60 trillion. Let me put this in numbers, 60,000,000,000,000 dollars. Yes that's a 6 followed by 13 zeros.
What does $60 trillion mean? The article states that is what the American auto industry has contributed to the national economy since 1900. Yes, in today's dollars that is what the American auto industry has given to our country.
There is no one alive in this country that was born without the automobile as a fact of American life. Though our oldest citizens, including my dad, can remember the horse led trucks that came through city streets of Detroit bringing ice, and other commodities to people's homes.
But the innovations that American car companies, such as Hudson Motors, Continental Motors, my dad worked at both, and other car companies including the Big Three, have contributed, assembly lines - the biggie, Model T which made the automobile affordable to many Americans thus reshaping their life forever, Eagle Boats for the U.S. Navy in 1917 for the U.S.'s pivotal role in this World War, Drive-In restaurants, drive-in theaters, Motels, Ford Airlines in 1926 so that the U.S. Government could have domestic airmail, shatter-resistant safety glass, Supermarkets starting in 1930, the General-Purpose vehicle in WWII - nicknamed the Jeep by GI's, armaments, Apollo 11's guidance and navigation system thanks to GM in 1969 as well as the Lunar Roving Vehicle for NASA and Apollo 15, Airbags, application of computers in 1978, built-in child safety seats in 1992, and during the 2000's the industry got serious about fuel economy and alternative cars with hybrids and flex fuels.
Now my question to Thomas Friedman, who also stated, let's nurture the next Google is yes, we need more Google's, and Michigan is glad they have come to Ann Arbor. We need to diversify and do more than just the car. The car will never be in it's hey day again, and the personal automobile will someday be replaced with better mass transit, very smart automobiles, and other options to get us from place A to place B.
Michigan is diversifying, and I am glad to see President Obama, with Michigan's Governor Granholm, supportive of help to the ailing automotive companies, and to bringing movie companies, windmills, solar research and of course the lithium-ion battery plants to Michigan.
But Mr. Friedman your callous and cold 'losers' is uncalled for, and a dangerous philosophy for our way of life, because if the Big Three die we all will die. There are 16 million jobs that will be on the line, directly or indirectly and that will more than double our soaring unemployment rate.
Read with a "grain of salt" August 26, 2009
Ronald A. Lamascus (Chambersburg)
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
Mr. Friedman is either a prophet or an insider with the liberal left and their use of being "green" in order to propogate a hidden political agenda. To evoke Jeffery Immelt and Al Gore as role models for our energy policy in this country is like asking Osama Bin Laden to help us solve the war in Afghanistan! I say Mr. Friedman must be a prophet since he wrote this book a year before the last election yet talks about the Cash for Clunkers program, the cap and trade legislation passed by the house, the path Obama is using to inflict energy policies through the takeover of GM and Chrysler and numerous other policies that are being used by the current administration to force the U.S. to implement programs that are highly questionable at best. GE is used frequently as an example of a company that can be used for alternative energy sources and yet the reality is GE has a history of being one of the worst offenders when it comes to corporate pollution at home and abroad. And GE is also a company that has been continuing to do business with Iran at the same time Iran has been killing U.S. soldiers in Irag and the same company recently fined for "cooking the books" a la Enron or WorldCom. The "World is Flat" hit the mark; "Hot, Flat and Crowded" not only misses the mark, it advocates a path that will bring this country to its knees politically and economically and according to Mr. Friedman, sooner rather than later. I encourage you to read the book but read it to uncover the real agenda of the left and their attempt to homogenize this country into the same type of autocracy that defines China.
 Hot, Flat and Crowded buy Thomas Friedman August 25, 2009
Holly J. Ward (San Diego, CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Every thinking person on the planet (and everyone who is trying hard to be a thinking person) should read this book for the very survival of our planet.
The president has taken it on his vacation this week, and that tells you something. The author is a "sober optimist," and now I am IF we all work together to build a healthy environment with clean energy and new jobs and beautiful cities, urban areas, forests and oceans. It can be done. You have to concentrate on the book, but the phrases do help us see the big picture.
Read/apply this ideas to make a difference in our world NOW August 24, 2009
Rebecca D. Turner (Fort Worth, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Friedman nails this topic on its head. If you care about our world today and in the future read this book. It will take grassroots efforts for us to all make the necessary changes in our own lives one by one, encouraging others to make the changes in theirs as well to make our world a better, more livable place. Consumers can affect change by contacting their political party representatives encouraging them to vote on green issues and by creating a "buzz" about what each of us can do make a difference. There are many examples of consumers affecting change in our world by their passionate beliefs in what they believe is the "right" thing to do.
Rebecca D. Turner author of Virus and Tattoo Virus: Spread the good news about your company via The Human Factor
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