托马斯·弗里德曼的简介
汤马斯·佛里曼(Thomas Loren Friedman,1953年7月20日-)是一位美国新闻记者、专栏以及书籍作家,并是普利策新闻奖的三届获奖者,目前担任《纽约时报》(the New York Times)Op-Ed(表达意见的文章、通常放于报纸社论的隔页)的专栏作家。
弗里德曼在《世界是平的》出版之前,已经是美国公认最有影响力的新闻工作者。《世界是平的》更奠定他趋势大师的地位。他的影响力早已不限于美国。他在《纽约时报》每周三、五见报的国际事务专栏,透过其供稿系统,固定被全世界七百多种报纸转载。转载之频之广,无人能出其右。他太常得奖,如今已是普利策奖的终身评审。他精通希伯来语和阿拉伯语,有五所美国大学的荣誉博士学位。新闻工作之余,他也是哈佛大学的客座教授。
Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the paper’s foreign-affairs columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the Washington bureau and before that he was the chief White House correspondent. In 2005, Mr. Friedman was elected as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Born in Minneapolis on July 20, 1953, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. degree in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he received a Master of Philosophy degree in Modern Middle East studies from Oxford. Mr. Friedman is married and has two daughters.
Mr. Friedman joined The Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. In 1984 Mr. Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel).
Mr. Friedman’s latest book, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century,” was released in April 2005 and won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. In 2004, he was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime achievement and the honorary title, Order of the British Empire (OBE), by Queen Elizabeth II.
His book, “From Beirut to Jerusalem” (1989), won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1989 and “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” (2000) won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy and has been published in 27 languages. Mr. Friedman also wrote “Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism” (2002) and the text accompanying Micha Bar-Am’s book, “Israel: A Photobiography.”
托马斯•弗里德曼的畅销书
1989年,《从贝鲁特到黎巴嫩》(《FromBeiruttoJerusalem》)被授予非小说类国家图书奖,至今仍被认为是研究中东问题的必读书之一;
2000 年,《凌志车与橄榄树:理解全球化》(《THELEXUSANDTHEOLIVETREE:UnderstandingGlobalizationbyThomasL.Friedman》)一书,在2000年获得了海外出版商俱乐部的最佳外交政策非小说奖项,并被翻译成30种语言;
2002年,《经济与态度:探究9.11后的世界》;
2005年4月,《世界是平的-21世纪简史》一书(《TheWorldisFlat:ABriefHistoryoftheTwenty-firstCentury》)。
托马斯•弗里德曼的《世界是平的》
《世界是平的》(The World Is Flat)是弗里德曼目前最畅销的著作,并且先后推出了1.0、2.0、3.0版,内容不断扩充。在本书中,弗里德曼描述了当代世界发生的重大变化。科技和通信领域如闪电般迅速的进步,使全世界的人们可以空前地彼此接近——在印度和中国创造爆炸式增长的财富;挑战我们中的一些人,比他们更快占领地盘。作者通过其对复杂外交政策和经济问题的非凡解读能力,解释了世界的平坦化趋势是如何在21世纪来临之时发生的;这个趋势对于国家、公司、社会和个人而言意味着什么;政府和组织如何才能接受而且必须接受;为什么恐怖分子仍想妄为。由托马斯·弗里德曼撰写的《世界是平的》,被认为是全球化的基本读物,既是成功作品,两年来稳居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜,同时也招致一些人的不满。
《世界是平的》以敏锐的视角、前瞻性的眼光、身边的采访故事和深入浅出的语言揭示出经济全球化已经成为不可逆转的必然规律。该书在某种意义上可称为《第三次浪潮》之后的又一部未来学巨著。《Business Week》说,所有的MBA 都在读《世界是平的》。《财星》杂志说:全美国的州长、国会议员都在谈《世界是平的》,大学校长在毕业典礼建议,进职场前应该先读《世界是平的》,有的商学院甚至要新生报到前就先读《世界是平的》。比尔﹒盖茨、潘石屹等中外企业家、《人民日报》、《经理世界》等主流媒体和财经期刊都曾经推荐过此书。海尔集团张瑞敏、重庆市市委领导都推荐企业员工和政府公务员阅读《世界是平的》。在中文版尚未问世之前,已经有很多国内的企业家和学者通过各种渠道和方式推荐这本书了。在2006年初网络上出现《世界是平的》电子书中文版简本以及英文版《世界是平的》电子书全文(PDF版本)。