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America Alone

The End of the World as We Know It

By Mark Steyn

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| Hardcover | 9780895260789

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Someday soon, you might wake up to the call of 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 violat Continue

Someday soon, you might wake up to the call of 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 in this, his first and eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics.

The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And 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, a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion--is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization.

Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to American 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 values 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.

Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread America's influence around the world--for our sake as well as theirs.

Mark Steyn's America Alone is laugh-out-loud funny--but it will also change the way you look at the world. It is sure to be the most talked-about book of the year.

Critics

  • Not what Europe wants to hear

    Between the revolution and the firing squad, a Russian aristocrat once observed, there is always time for a bottle of champagne. Between the demographic disaster and the collapse of Western civilisation, Mark Steyn appears to believe, there’s always ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Not what Europe wants to hear

    Between the revolution and the firing squad, a Russian aristocrat once observed, there is always time for a bottle of champagne. Between the demographic disaster and the collapse of Western civilisation, Mark Steyn appears to believe, there’s always ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • Steyn is a neocon.

    And while he gives few if no answers to the questions he turns to America about her loneliness in present and future foreign affairs; while he also does not involves Europe and Europeans in this debate, like they're already lost to a decaying demography and actually the Islamization of their societi ... (continue)

    And while he gives few if no answers to the questions he turns to America about her loneliness in present and future foreign affairs; while he also does not involves Europe and Europeans in this debate, like they're already lost to a decaying demography and actually the Islamization of their societies; while all this and some nasty humour, Mark Steyn offers an invaluable contribution on a debate that is both hot and urgent.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 214 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0895260786
  • ISBN-13: 9780895260789
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
  • Pub date: Sep 16, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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