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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Friedman, Thomas L.
That used to be us : how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back / Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-374-28890-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Creative ability—United States. 2. Education and state—United States. 3. Information technology—Social aspects—United States. I. Mandelbaum, Michael. II. Title.
BF408 .F747 2011 973.932—dc23
2011020814
Picador ISBN 978-1-250-01372-9
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Picador Edition: August 2012
Picador Edition: August 2012