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The Endangered American Dream; How to stop the United States from becoming a third world country and how to win the geo-economic struggle for industrial supremacy. - Hardcover
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Hardcover edition. Indicting U.S. political and economic systems, author Edward N. Luttwak proposes a master plan for becoming an economic super-power with staying power in the changing world economy.
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- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0067186939
- ISBN 13 9780067186930
- BindingHardcover
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The Endangered American Dream; How to Stop the United States from Becoming a Third World Country and How to Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy
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Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0067186939
ISBN 13: 9780067186930
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 365, [3] pages. Notes. Index. DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Front DJ flap price creased. Inscribed by the author to journalist and Pulitzer-prize winning author Hedrick Smith, who signed and dated the book inside the front flyleaf; he also wrote extensive comments to the text, and underlined significant passages. Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born November 4, 1942) is a political scientist who has published works on grand strategy, military history, and international relations. He has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the United States Department of State, the United States Navy, United States Army, United States Air Force, and several NATO defense ministries. Working for OSD/Net Assessment, he co-developed the current maneuver-warfare concept, working for TRADOC, he introduced the "operational level of war" concept into U.S. Army doctrine, wrote the first manual for the Joint Special Operations Agency, and co-developed the Rapid-Deployment Force concept (later U.S. Central Command) for the Office of the Secretary of Defense International Security Affairs. Luttwak has been a frequent lecturer and consultant, and is known for his innovative policy ideas, suggesting for example that major powers' attempts to quell regional wars actually make conflicts more protracted. His book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook has been reprinted numerous times, and translated into 18 languages. His book Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace is used as a textbook in war colleges and universities. The notes and underlining by the previous owner, noted journalist and scholar Hedrick Smith, provides a unique source of evidentiary content analysis into his thoughts and analytical processes. Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. After serving 26 years with The New York Times from 1962-88 as correspondent, editor and bureau chief in both Moscow and Washington, Smith moved into television in 1989, reporting and producing more than 50 hours of long-form documentaries for PBS over the next 25 years on topics from the inside story of the terrorists who mounted the 9/11 attacks and Gorbachev's perestroika to Wall Street, Walmart and The Democracy Rebellion of grassroots citizen reform movements. Smith has authored five best-selling books including The Russians, The Power Game: How Washington Works, and Who Stole the American Dream?, and co-authored several other books, including The Pentagon Papers and Reagan: The Man, the President. Luttwak advocates industrial policy, stronger immigration controls, an increased federal role in education, and a value-added tax that will halt overconsumption--the central problem of the U.S. economy. One of America's most thoughtful and provocative strategists, Luttwak exposes the economic and cultural assumptions that have driven the U.S. to the brink of social and financial collapse. Edward Luttwak reveals a forceful new policy that can reverse America's decline. Derived from a Kirkus review: Having made a name for himself as a military sage, Luttwak now turns his attention to geoeconomicsthe battleground on which, he asserts, a self-defeating US must best commercial rivals if it's to thrive in the wake of the USSR's collapse. In his wide-ranging overview, the author argues that America is on the decline toward Third World statusciting a downward slide in domestic wage scales; measurable drops in living standards; ongoing job losses in major industries (owing to the transfer of advanced technologies); urban decay; spiraling debt burdens; inadequate savings rates; and a persistent failure to invest in capital goods, infrastructure, research, or people. Luttwak warns, an unfortunate trend to unfettered individualism (driven to a great extent by misguided concessions to cultural diversity in schools, the workplace, and other venues) has undermined the nation's unity and, hence, its cap. Seller Inventory # 55700
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