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The Next Hundred Million

America in 2050

by Joel Kotkin

Hardcover, 308 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $25.95 |

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Title: The Next Hundred Million
Subtitle: America in 2050
Author: Joel Kotkin

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Makes predictions for mid-twenty-first-century America, assessing how an anticipated additional one hundred million citizens will transform everything from community life and employment to technology and renewable energies.

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Imagining 'The Next Hundred Million' Americans

February 8, 2010 • The U.S. population is expected to reach 400 million by mid-century. In his book, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, Joel Kotkin argues that future will be green, diverse and suburban. Kotkin explains how the nation's changing demographics will transform American life and communities.

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What We're Reading

What We're Reading, Feb. 2 - 8, 2010

February 2, 2010 • Things fall apart in Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag. A woman's gift to science yields medical miracles — and outrage — in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. What will America be like with one-third more people? A strangely optimistic answer in The Next Hundred Million. And a teenager traces down a tragic family mystery in The Girl Who Fell from the Sky.