This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
On its present course, the US faces a world of rising newcountries that will compete with it ever more fiecely as its ownpower is declining. In order to slow and improve this steadyleakage of power, the US must change course internationally,economically and domestically. It must also restructure to remainthe world's most competitive economy. And it must address qualityof life issues and fairness at home. But American politics isbroken -- competing forces and interests have led to stasis. Withchange so tough, where now for a country where the middle classesare suffering as they have never suffered before, the pensionscrisis is growing, the deficit out of sight, and radicalism waitingin the wings?
