Please join us for our discussion of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. Well known for his writing on globalization, author Friedman focuses here on some of the serious economic problems that the U.S. faces, and offers some possible solutions. With co-author Mandelbaum, they focus on four challenges they feel the U.S. needs to immediately address, including the national deficit, and ongoing globalization. This is a realistic portrait of today’s global economy, combined with a workable plan by which Americans might thrive.