That Used to Be UsA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011 In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a country globalization, the revolution in information technology, chronic deficits, and our pattern of energy consumption and spell out what we need to do now to preserve American power in the world. The end of the Cold War blinded the nation to the need to