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America alone : the end of the world as we know it / Mark Steyn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2006.Description: xxx, 224 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0895260786
  • 9780895260789
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Contents:
Pt. I. The gelded age. The coming of age: births vs. deaths ; Going... going... gone: demography vs. delusion ; Men are from Venus: primary impulses vs. secondary impulses. -- Pt. II. Arabian night. Flying the coop: big Mo vs. Big Mac ; The anything they'll believe in: church vs. state ; The four horsemen of the Eupocalypse: Eutopia vs. Eurabia. -- Pt. III. The new dark ages--and how to lighten up. The state-of-the-art primitive: the known unknowns vs. the knowingly unknowing ; The unipole apart: America vs. everyone else ; The importance of being exceptional: citizens vs. dependents ; The falling camel: last legs.
Summary: In his first major book, concervative columnist Steyn takes on the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The future, Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. The Islamists are both, while the West--wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion--is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. Europe is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone--with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope.--From publisher description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Mark Steyn is a human sandblaster. This book provides a powerful, abrasive, high-velocity assault on encrusted layers of sugarcoating and whitewash over the threat of Islamic imperialism. Do we in the West have the will to prevail?" - MICHELLE MALKIN, New York Times bestselling author of Unhinged

"Mark Steyn is the funniest writer now living. But don't be distracted by the brilliance of his jokes. They are the neon lights advertising a profound and sad insight: America is almost alone in resisting both the suicide of the West and the suicide bombing of radical Islamism." - JOHN O'SULLIVAN, editor at large, National Review

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.....

Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"--while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.

If you think this can't happen, you haven't been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn--the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world--shows to devastating effect. The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization.


But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope. Mark Steyn's America Alone is laugh-out-loud funny--but it will also change the way you look at the world.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. The gelded age. The coming of age: births vs. deaths ; Going... going... gone: demography vs. delusion ; Men are from Venus: primary impulses vs. secondary impulses. -- Pt. II. Arabian night. Flying the coop: big Mo vs. Big Mac ; The anything they'll believe in: church vs. state ; The four horsemen of the Eupocalypse: Eutopia vs. Eurabia. -- Pt. III. The new dark ages--and how to lighten up. The state-of-the-art primitive: the known unknowns vs. the knowingly unknowing ; The unipole apart: America vs. everyone else ; The importance of being exceptional: citizens vs. dependents ; The falling camel: last legs.

In his first major book, concervative columnist Steyn takes on the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The future, Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. The Islamists are both, while the West--wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion--is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. Europe is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone--with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope.--From publisher description.

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