Thomas L. Friedman
Forfatter af The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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Journalist Thomas L. Friedman was born in 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Friedman graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean Studies and earned a graduate degree from Oxford in Modern Middle East Studies. His reporting on the war in Lebanon won the George Polk Award, the vis mere Pulitzer Prize, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He won a second Pulitzer for his work in Israel. Friedman began his career as a correspondent for United Press International and later served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Beirut and Jerusalem. He moved to the op-ed page of The New York Times as a foreign affairs columnist. In 2002, Friedman won his third Pulitzer Prize, this time for Commentary. Friedman wrote about his experiences as a Jewish-American reporter in the Middle East in From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award in 1989. The bestselling Lexus and the Olive Tree won the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. He wrote Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 and The World Is Flat, which received the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His other works include Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0, and That Used to Be Us which made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. His title, Thank You for Being Late, made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Thomas L. Friedman
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (2008) 3,260 eksemplarer
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (2016) 1,025 eksemplarer
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (2011) 694 eksemplarer
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Friedman, Thomas L. (2005)… 8 eksemplarer
LA PUCE ET L'OLIVIER,Comprendre la mondialisation 2 eksemplarer
The Energy Mandate (Article) 1 eksemplar
From Beirut to Jerusalem (audio abridged) 1 eksemplar
Obrigado pelo atraso - eBook 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Friedman, Thomas L.
- Juridisk navn
- Friedman, Thomas Lauren
- Fødselsdato
- 1953-07-20
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
- Bopæl
- St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
Kibbutz Hahotrim, Israel
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Beirut, Lebanon - Uddannelse
- Brandeis University (BA ∙ Mediterranean studies ∙ 1975)
University of Minnesota
St Antony's College, University of Oxford (M.Phil ∙ 1978 | Middle Eastern studies)
American University in Cairo
St. Louis Park High School - Erhverv
- journalist
columnist
author
golf caddy
professor
political commentator - Relationer
- Friedman, Ann Bucksbaum (wife)
- Organisationer
- The New York Times
United Press International
Pulitzer Prize Board - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Marshall Scholar
Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1983)
Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1988)
Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 2002)
Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime achievement (2004)
Officer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2004) (vis alle 11)
George Polk Award (1982)
Overseas Press Club Award (2000)
American Philosophical Society (2003)
Golden Plate Award (2003)
National Book Award (1989)
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- #777
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