That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back(ISBN=9781408703595)

　　America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover America's power and prowess.
　　They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how America's history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the US political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs. What's Wrong with America? is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.

　　Thomas L. Friedman is a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times. Michael Mandelbaum is director of the American Foreign Policy program at Johns Hopkins.

Preface: Growing Up in America
PART I: THE DIAGNOSIS
1. If You See Something, Say Something
2. Ignoring Our Problems 
3. Ignoring Our History  3
PART II: THE EDUCATION CHALLENGE
4. Up in the Air 
5. Help Wanted 
6. Homework x 2 = The American Dream
7. Average Is Over  
PART III: THE WAR ON MATH AND PHYSICS
8. "This Is Our Due" 
9. The War on Math (and the Future) 
10. The War on Physics and Other Good Things
PART IV: POLITICAL FAILURE
11. The Terrible Twos 
12. "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It" 
13. Devaluation 
PART V: REDISCOVERING AMERICA
14. They Just Didn't Get the Word
15. Shock Therapy 
16. Rediscovering America 
Acknowledgments 
Index