Synopses & Reviews
“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbusting bestseller on the United States in the twenty-first century. How can Americans understand this rapidly changing international climate, and how might the nation continue to thrive in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.
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"This is a relentlessly intelligent book that eschews simple-minded projections from crisis to collapse." Slate
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"Compelling." Thomas Friedman
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A far-reaching analysis.
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"A provocative and often shrewd take that opens a big picture window on the closing of the first American century and the advent of a new world." Michiko Kakutani
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"Fareed Zakaria is one of the most thoughtful foreign policy analysts of our day and his new book . . . is a must read for anyone interested in globalization--or the Presidential election." Michiko Kakutani New York Times
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"A far-reaching analysis." New York Times
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"Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West." --
Synopsis
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's blockbusting bestseller on the United States in the twenty-first century. How can Americans understand this rapidly changing international climate, and how might the nation continue to thrive in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.
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“Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” —Boston Sunday Globe
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In this international bestseller, Fareed Zakaria describes "the rise of the rest"--the political and economic ascendance of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, and Kenya. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, Zakaria outlines the contemporary diffusion of power, drawing on lessons of history to help the United States face the challenges--and opportunities--of the post-American world.
About the Author
Fareed Zakaria has been called "the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation" (Esquire). He is the Emmy-nominated host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, contributing editor for The Atlantic, a columnist for the Washington Post, and the best-selling author of The Post-American World and The Future of Freedom. He lives in New York City.