After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

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Simon and Schuster, Aug 8, 2011 - Political Science - 400 pages
Mark Steyn's New York Times bestseller, After America, is now in paperback! Featuring a new introduction and updated throughout, After America takes on Obama's disastrous plan for our nation, and reveals exactly what a post-American world will look like if we don't change our ways soon. Says Steyn: "Nothing is certain but debt and taxes. And then more debt. If the government of the United States had to use GAAP (the 'Generally Accepted Accounting Practices' that your company and the publisher of this book have to use), Uncle Sam would be under an SEC investigation and his nephews and nieces would have taken away the keys and cut up his credit card." Slim as it is, however, Steyn argues there is still hope. "Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea—of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest—or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline. This is a battle for the American idea, and it's an epic one, but you can do anything you want to do. So do it." Bitingly funny and wickedly clever, After America is Mark Steyn at his best.
 

Contents

Prologue
1
1 The New Rome The Decaying City
25
2 Undreaming America Serfing USA
45
3 The New Athens The Drowning City
105
4 Decline American Idyll
129
5 The New Britannia The Depraved City
191
6 Fall Beyond the Green Zone
213
7 The New Jerusalem The City Besieged
271
8 AfterA Letter from the PostAmerican World
281
Epilogue The Hope of Audacity
327
Acknolwedgments
353
Notes
355
Index
407
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Mark Steyn is the bestselling author of After America and America Alone. His writing on war, politics, the arts, and culture has appeared in almost every major newspaper around the world, from The Wall Street Journal to The Irish Times to The Australian. In the United States he is National Review’s “Happy Warrior,” as well as a regular guest-host on America’s number one radio show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and America’s number two cable news show, Hannity on Fox News. He lives in New Hampshire.

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