Emphasis Preaching Journal

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has made it his calling to comment on political and economic power in America, and in the world, for that matter. Drawing on his experience as a New York Times reporter in Eastern Europe and his research on the Japanese economy in his book The Reckoning, he helps us to envision what the future might bring. His little book The Next Century shares with us the observation we all know but do not like to admit. The American Century is past. The time of easy affluence in America is over. In a sense it has been for a long time.