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A Recommended Source for Data On Foreign Trade

Friday, December 18, 2009

BusinessJournalism.org, the web site run by the National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State, cites The Selling of the American Economy as a source for data on foreign trade. In her article, Pam Luecke says,
For more recent inspiration, I’d recommend the 2009 book by New York Times reporter Micheline Maynard, “The Selling of the American Economy: [...]

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Akio Toyoda: Making Headlines

Saturday, October 3, 2009

The Selling of the American Economy contains the only in-depth interview that Akio Toyoda,
the president of Toyota Motor, has done in more than five years. On Oct. 2, Toyoda issued a wide-ranging series of apologies for Toyota’s problems. Here’s my story from The New York Times.

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The first books arrive…

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Authors’ copies, that is. But how exciting to hold the first books after months of work. Less than a month now until publication.

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Wondering what The Selling of the American Economy is about?

Monday, July 20, 2009

Here’s the official description from Broadway Books’ fall catalog.

Synopsis
Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the American automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries [...]

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