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Jan 1, 2001 · 8,447 ratings479 reviews. In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, offers an engrossing look at the new international system that is transforming world affairs today. Globalization has replaced the Cold War system with the integration of capital, technology ...
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Apr 21, 1999 · A brilliant guidebook to the new world of “globalization” by Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Friedman (From Beirut to Jerusalem, 1988). Like El Ni§o, globalization is blamed for anything and everything, but few understand just what it really is. In simplest terms, Friedman defines globalization as the world integration of finance markets, nation states, and technologies within a ...
The Lexus and the Olive Tree. “A brilliant guide for the here and now.”. — The New York Times Book Review. As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life – Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new ...
The Lexus and the Olive Tree. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. Farrar Straus Giroux. Read the Review. Tourist with an Attitude. At the wonderful science museum in Barcelona, I saw an exhibit that beautifully illustrated "chaos." A nonlinear version of a pendulum was set up so that the visitor could hold the bob and start out in a chosen position and with ...
By RICHARD EDER. THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE. By Thomas L. Friedman. 394 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27.50. lthough he wrote an absorbing book 10 years ago about the Middle East, Thomas L. Friedman is mainly known to readers first as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and, in recent years, a foreign ...
Aug 21, 2012 · 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 .
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May 2, 2000 · He dramatizes the conflict of "the Lexus and the olive tree"--the tension between the globalization system and ancient forces of culture, geography, tradition, and community. He also details the powerful backlash that globalization produces among those who feel brutalized by it, and he spells out what we all need to do to keep the system in ...
