That Used to Be Us

　　被全球化的浪潮逼到邊緣，政治對立加劇
　　眼看中國經濟起飛，想要追趕卻有心無力…

　　這是一本談論美國的困境與希望的書
　　但處處與我們的現況似曾相識

　　如果先民的拓荒精神是美國困境的解答
　　我們不妨也重新擦亮自己對國家的想像

　　本書由佛里曼與外交思想家曼德鮑姆合著，書中提到美國政府當前所面臨的四大危機：全球化、資訊科技革命、債台高築，及能源過度使用。但美蘇冷戰結束後，美國政府對這些議題視若無睹。而當今中國大陸無論在教育、工業、科技的崛起，都一再提醒美國「也曾擁有如此光榮」（That Used to Be US），並顯示美國當今政治體系及核心價值的崩壞。

　　儘管如此，佛里曼深信，只要深入了解美國歷史，就會找到讓美國克服當前危機的方式，讓美國重返輝煌時代。本書提出許多成功企業家的評論，並指出他們並未放棄美國夢的願景及勇往直前的態度及行動，佛里曼更進一步針對美國已陷入的困境提出建言，其中包括振興傳統核心價值，及建立新的第三方運動復興國家經濟。

　　本書不但針對美國目前現況提出突破解決方案，也是振興美國的重要宣言。

　　America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them — and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.

　　In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up call and a call to collective action. They analyze the four challenges we face — globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits, and our pattern of excessive energy consumption — and spell out what we need to do now to sustain the American dream and preserve American power in the world. They explain how the end of the Cold War blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously, and how China’s educational successes, industrial might, and technological prowess remind us of the ways in which “ that used to be us. ” They explain how the paralysis of our political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible for us to carry out the policies the country urgently needs.

　　And yet Friedman and Mandelbaum believe that the recovery of American greatness is within reach. They show how America’s history, when properly understood, offers a five-part formula for prosperity that will enable us to cope successfully with the challenges we face. They offer vivid profiles of individuals who have not lost sight of the American habits of bold thought and dramatic action. They propose a clear way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, a way that includes the rediscovery of some of our most vital traditions and the creation of a new thirdparty movement to galvanize the country.

　　That Used to Be Us is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.

　　★本書中譯版《我們曾經輝煌：美國在新世界生存的關鍵》由天下文化出版。

作者簡介

湯瑪斯．佛里曼Thomas Friedman

　　在全球化時代，站在全球高度上，從龐雜紛歧的全球事務中理出頭緒，為全世界人類帶來全球觀點的第一人，非佛里曼莫屬。　　

　　從報導中東地區複雜的局勢，到盱衡全球的國際事務，佛里曼一直用敏銳的記者直覺，強烈的個人文字風格，運用許多小故事，夾議夾敘，把治絲益棼的國際政治、金融市場、科技環保、宗教文化等種種議題，寫得十分淺顯易懂，引人入勝，讓每個人都可以對國際事務侃侃而談，感覺真正在參與全球化的過程。　　

　　佛里曼在《紐約時報》的專欄文章，同步在全球超過七百多個媒體上刊登。他的《從貝魯特到耶路撒冷》，被翻譯成27國文字，並成為暢銷書，甚至還成為許多中學及大學了解中東議題的教科書。1999年出版《了解全球化》（The Lexus and the Olive Tree）被翻譯成20國文字， 2005年出版《世界是平的》（The World Is Flat），成為全球各地討論的熱烈話題，也讓他被《美國新聞與世界報導》選為美國最佳領導人之一，如今他已是一位具有影響力的意見領袖。

　　他因為傑出的新聞報導及評論成就，拿過三座普立茲獎，如今已是普立茲獎的終身評審。他精通希伯來語和阿拉伯語，有五所美國大學的榮譽博士學位。新聞工作之餘，他也是哈佛大學的客座教授，與哈佛校長薩默斯與本書13章出現的桑德爾共同開一門「全球化」的課。

　　Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist—the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of five bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.
 
　　He was born in Minneapolis in 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies, attended St. Antony’s College, Oxford, on a Marshall Scholarship, and received an M.Phil. degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford.
 
　　After three years with United Press International, he joined The New York Times, where he has worked ever since as a reporter, correspondent, bureau chief, and columnist. At the Times, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1983 for international reporting (from Lebanon), in 1988 for international reporting (from Israel), and in 2002 for his columns after the September 11th attacks.
 
　　Friedman’s first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1989. His second book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999), won the Overseas Press Club Award for best book on foreign policy in 2000. In 2002 FSG published a collection of his Pulitzer Prize-winning columns, along with a diary he kept after 9/11, as Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. His fourth book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) became a #1 New York Times bestseller and received the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in November 2005. A revised and expanded edition was published in hardcover in 2006 and in 2007. The World Is Flat has sold more than 4 million copies in thirty-seven languages.
 
　　In 2008 he brought out Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which was published in a revised edition a year later. His sixth book, That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, will be published in September 2011.
 
　　Thomas L. Friedman lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.

邁可．曼德鮑Michael Mandelbaum

　　曼德鮑是約翰霍普金斯大學高級國際研究學院教授，專攻美國外交政策，並主持該院的美國外交政策計畫。他也曾在哈佛大學、哥倫比亞大學，及美國海軍學院教書。

　　曼德鮑擔任華盛頓近東政策研究所的顧問，該所贊助美國對中東政策的研究和公眾討論。

　　曼德鮑畢業於耶魯大學，獲劍橋大學國王學院碩士，並在哈佛大學完成博士學位。

　　曼德鮑著有13本書，並編輯了12本書，除了本書之外，他的寫作主題遍及美國政策、體育生態、歐州政治、全球競爭，及核能議題。

　　Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. and is the director of the American Foreign Policy Program there. He has also held teaching posts at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and at the United States Naval Academy.

　　His most recent book, written with co-author Thomas L. Friedman, is THAT USED TO BE US: HOW AMERICA FELL BEHIND IN THE WORLD IT INVENTED AND HOW WE CAN COME BACK. Its publication date is September 5, 2011.

　　He serves on the board of advisors of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington-based organization sponsoring research and public discussion on American policy toward the Middle East.

　　A graduate of Yale College, Professor Mandelbaum earned his Master’s degree at King’s College, Cambridge University and his doctorate at Harvard University.

　　Professor Mandelbaum is the author or co-author of numerous articles and of 13 books: That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (2011) with co-author Thomas L. Friedman; The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era (2010); Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government (2007); The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World’s Government in the Twenty-first Century (2006); The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football and Basketball and What They See When They Do (2004); The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century (2002); The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996); The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1988); The Global Rivals, (co-author, 1988); Reagan and Gorbachev (co-author, 1987); The Nuclear Future (1983); The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and After Hiroshima (1981); and The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946-1976 (1979). He is also the editor of twelve books.