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America Alone:

The End of the World As We Know It
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Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, 2008 - Political Science - 224 pages
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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Mark Steyn is an amazing writer. - Goodreads
The problem is, the introduction says this. - Goodreads
Scary. Mr. Steyn has done deep research. - Goodreads
Good insight into global issues and Muslim issues. - Goodreads
Interesting premise. - Goodreads
Mark Steyn is a brilliant writer. - Goodreads

Review: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

User Review  - Lillian Martin - Goodreads

A chilling analysis of how the immigrant muslim population in European countries has left America alone in its ability to keep Democracy from fading in the modern geo-political architecture of the ... Read full review

Review: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

User Review  - Art King - Goodreads

Mark Steyn is so quotable! This book if full of great zingers, pithy quotes, thought-provoking one-liners. I'm more optimistic than he is about the Islamic threat, but agree with him about the demographic collapse. Great read. Read full review

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About the author (2008)

Mark Steyn was born in Toronto, Canada on December 8, 1959. He worked as a disc-jockey before becoming musical theatre critic for The Independent in 1986. He became a film critic for The Spectator in 1992. After writing predominantly about the arts, he shifted his focus to political commentary. He has written for numerous publications including the Chicago Sun-Times, National Review, The New York Sun, The Australian, Maclean's, The Atlantic Monthly, Western Standard and New Criterion. He received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism in 2006 and the Sappho Award from the International Free Press Society in 2010. He has written several books including Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, and After America: Get Ready for Armageddon.

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