Those questions are at the heart of a new book, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century." The author is Dmitri Alperovitch, with Garrett Graff.

Dmitri Alperovitch is an internationally recognized ... and the author of the national bestseller World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century.

When the announcement came last June that Politics and Prose was up for sale, we had the same nervous questions that many other Washingtonians had: What would new ownership mean for book lovers ...