Written by Hedrick Smith - Audio book narrated by Michael Hanson - Abridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Publishing Mills (1995)

A New Game Plan From the American Innovators: Schools, Business, People, Work

Pulitzer Prize-winner Hedrick Smith's RETHINKING AMERICA is a provocative inside portrait of America at a crucial crossroads. Smith leads us into the schools and businesses of America to show how our traditional approach to commerce and education is obsolete for the new global economy -- and how our innovators are succeeding by rethinking America. From classrooms to companies to government, RETHINKING AMERICA points the way to creative and effective new ways to think, teach, work, and succeed in the future, and it shows how the American innovators are doing just that.

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. He discloses how differently decisions are made and power is wielded in the corporate boardrooms of America, Germany, and Japan. Education is where the race begins. Smith contrasts what American school teachers emphasize, compared with skills and values taught elsewhere.

HEDRICK SMITH's twenty-six year career with The New York Times took him to Vietnam, Cairo, Paris, and Washington as well as to Moscow, where his reporting from 1971 to 1974 won him a Pulitzer Prize. His books include the best-sellers The Russians; The Power Game: How Washington Really Works; and The New Russians. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has created, reported for, and hosted three PBS mini-series: Inside Gorbacev's Russia, The Power Game, and Challenge to America.