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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus LS, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree .
- Thomas L Friedman
- 1999
The Lexus and the Olive Tree From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) is a book by American journalist Thomas L. Friedman chronicling his days as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in Jerusalem through the first year of the Intifada .
- Thomas L. Friedman
- 1989
With vivid stories and a set of original terms and concepts, Friedman shows us how to see this new system. He dramatizes the conflict of “the Lexus and the olive tree” – the tension between the globalization system and ancient forces of culture, geography, tradition, and community.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree. At the wonderful science museum in Barcelona, I saw an exhibit that beautifully illustrated "chaos." A nonlinear version of a pendulum was set up so that the...
The Lexus and the Olive Tree. A brilliant investigation of globalization, the most significant socioeconomic trend in the world today, and how it is affecting everything we...
Complete summary of Thomas L. Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Lexus and the Olive Tree.
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a nonfiction work by Thomas L Friedman, a New York Times foreign affairs reporter turned opinion columnist. Friedman has won three Pulitzer Prizes for General Non-Fiction and won the National Book Award for From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), his memoir about reporting Middle East relations.
