Hendrick Smith Bücher
Hedrick Smith ist ein renommierter Journalist, dessen Werke tiefgreifende soziale und politische Fragen untersuchen. Als ehemaliger Reporter und Redakteur für The New York Times sowie als Produzent/Korrespondent für PBS Frontline bringt er scharfe Einblicke in die Funktionsweise von Machtstrukturen mit. Seine Schriften konzentrieren sich darauf, die verborgenen Kräfte aufzudecken, die die amerikanische Gesellschaft prägen, und kritische Fragen durch rigorose Recherche und fesselnde Erzählungen zu beleuchten. Smiths Arbeit fordert die Leser heraus, komplexe Themen zu betrachten und bietet Klarheit über komplizierte Phänomene.
Hainer Kober, geboren 1942, lebt in Soltau. Er hat u. a. Werke von Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Littell, Georges Simenon und Oliver Sacks übersetzt.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kronzucker, geb. 1936, gehört zu den großen Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Fernsehjournalismus und ist als Korrespondent und Moderator seit Jahrzehnten auf dem Bildschirm präsent (u. a. WDR, ZDF, Sat.1).
Who Stole the American Dream?
- 579 Seiten
- 21 Lesestunden
Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.
Hedrick Smith has done what we all wish we could do: he has gone to Russia and spoken to the people. Over steaming samovars, in cramped flats, and on dirt-floors, he has spoken to peasants and bureaucrats, artists and officials. He has studied their customs and their governments and shares his fascinating insights and fresh perspectives with us.
An inside portrait revealing how the American game of governing is played in the 1980s. There is a new breed of winner with new political styles and sets of rules. Different talents and techniques are required if the American system of government is going to work effectively.
Measuring this country against its major competitors, Smith shows how global competition has radically altered the way people work, what schools need to teach, and the nature of power and people's relationships on the job. With one insightful story after another, he reveals what goes on inside grade school and high school classrooms and inside big corporations and small companies in the three main capitalist economies; how that affects our future; and why today's greatest need is a new mind-set. In revealing portraits, Smith contrasts how American CEOs think at giants such as GM, Boeing, Motorola, compared to CEOs at Germany's Daimler-Benz and Deutsche Bank or at Japan's Toyota or Mitsubishi. He discloses how differently decisions are made and power is wielded in the corporate boardrooms of America, Germany, and Japan. He shows us what workers think and do in these rival economies and how the lives of workers at companies such as Ford and Motorola were transformed once management began rethinking its approach. Education is where the race begins. Smith contrasts what American grade school teachers emphasize, compared with the skills and values taught elsewhere. He shows how businessmen in Germany and Japan cooperate with educators in creating programs to prepare "mid-kids"--Average high school students--for solid careers and how innovative American communities are developing similar strategies
