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"An impassioned account of globalization's rise and stall." -- The New York Times
"Captivating... A tale that will change how you look at the world." -- Mark Leibovich
"A fascinating crash course in the global supply chain. Like Michael Lewis, Peter Goodman tells a business story in clear, lively prose. Here he shows how corporate America goosed its balance sheets with a system that minimized inventories and maximized stock prices, squeezing truck drivers and railroad workers and ultimately leaving consumers in the lurch when this fragile construct came crashing down." -- Barbara Demick
One of Foreign Affairs' "Best Books of 2024"
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THE FLOATING TRAFFIC JAM THAT FREAKED US ALL OUT
"This was what it looked like when the global economy came shuddering to a halt."
Excerpt in The New York Times, June 2, 2024.
THE DAILY SHOW
June 25, 2024
FRESH AIR
June 24, 2024
CBS NEWS
June 10, 2024
ONE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS' BEST BOOKS OF 2024
Goodman "concludes that the ideology that captured both U.S. political parties for half a century—that efficiency matters above all—is giving way to an appreciation of the need to rein in corporate power, strengthen labor protections, and avoid the excesses and risks of unrestrained globalization."
CNBC SQUAWK BOX
July 3, 2024
FINANCIAL TIMES
July 16, 2024
"The resulting vignettes of life on board container ships plying the sea lanes between China and California, in the control rooms of automated unloading docks in Rotterdam, and on the road with hauliers in the American Midwest, evoke the remarkable richness, diversity, and sheer unexpectedness of the modern, globalised economy. At one point, Goodman embeds with a middle-aged, BBC World Service-addicted, long-distance truck driver en route to Ohio. "'I love Brahms,’ he told me as we wound through Kansas” is Goodman’s deadpan commentary."
NEWSWEEK, JUNE 11, 2024
"Even for a figure inclined toward impromptu displays of showmanship, Bill Clinton outdid himself inside the massive banquet hall inside the heart of Beijing."
"It was a balmy night in June 1998, and the president was in the midst of alternately wooing and pressuring China's government to assent to American terms on a deal bringing the nation into the World Trade Organization. He and then–First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were attending a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People, the colonnaded fortress occupying the western edge of Tiananmen Square."
PETER S. GOODMAN
National Best-selling author
Global Economic Correspondent for The New York Times
Books, stories, TV appearances, and podcasts on the global economy, inequality, and social tensions in a time of relentless change.
