Prestowitz said that he also mentioned the lack of attribution to his editor and agent, but that he doesn’t know if they raised the issue with Zakaria or his publisher. Prestowitz, who heads the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think tank, said he contacted Zakaria about the Grove quote when “The Post-American World” was published four years ago but received no response.

The quote appears in the book’s first chapter.įareed Zakaria attending the 71st Annual Peabody Awards in New York. In an interview Monday, Prestowitz said Grove made the comment in an interview Prestowitz conducted while he was researching his book. In fact, Grove’s comment was published three years earlier in “Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Power to the East,” by former Commerce Department official Clyde V. The first edition of Zakaria’s book, which became a bestseller, makes no mention of the comment’s source, nor does a paperback version of “Post-American World” published in 2009. “They’re all in denial, patting themselves on the back as the Titanic heads straight for the iceberg full speed ahead.” “America is in danger of following Europe down the tubes, and the worst part is that nobody knows it,” Grove says in Zakaria’s book. chief executive Andy Grove about the nation’s economic power. Zakaria’s 2008 book, “The Post-American World,” contains a quote from former Intel Corp. Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria, who acknowledged plagiarizing parts of a magazine article last week, appears to have also published without attribution a passage from a 2005 book.

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