The Genius of Tom Friedman
Courtesy of East Ethnia, here’s a hilarious book review by Matt Taibbi from my favorite New York freebie paper, the Press, of Thomas L. Friedman’s latest bestselling explain-it-all. I enjoy Friedman’s columns in the Times but find them exasperating at the same time, though he sure does a good job at driving his points home.
His latest opus is somehow about globalization and the flattening of the world and how everything is interconnected and all that — and it seems to be one of those books you can safely ignore if you’ve read just one review, provided it’s this one.
Update, 4/24: of course, I should also point out that many of the same complaints as in Taibbi’s reviews were already made in a piece published in the Economist (cover date 4/2), which was almost as sharp as the book seems to deserve.
