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

by Mark Steyn

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596985278
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	03/18/2008
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	218,599
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mark Steyn's writing on politics, war, arts, and culture can be read around the world from the Washington Times all the way to Hawke's Bay Today in New Zealand. In the United States he is National Review's Happy Warrior, and a contributor to the New Criterion. His weekly column appears in the New York Sun, the Orange County Register, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and other newspapers. In Canada, he writes for the country's biggest-selling news weekly, Maclean's. In addition, his column appears in many other publications from The Australian to New Zealand's leading magazine, Investigate. He can also be read daily at SteynOnline.com. He is a popular commentator on radio and TV, and has guest hosted such top-rated shows as Hannity & Colmes, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, and Hugh Hewitt. Born in Toronto, he now lives in New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Soon to Be Banned in Canada     vii
Prologue: To Be or Not to Be     xxvii
The Gelded Age
The Coming of Age: Births vs. dearths     1
Going...Going...Gone: Demography vs. delusion     23
Men Are from Venus: Primary impulses vs. secondary impulses     41
Arabian Night
Flying the Coop: Big Mo vs. Big Mac     59
The Anything They'll Believe In: Church vs. state     81
The Four Horsemen of the Eupocalypse: Eutopia vs. Eurabia     103
The New Dark Ages...And How to Lighten Up
The State-of-the-Art Primitive: The known unknowns vs. the knowingly unknowing     131
The Unipole Apart: America vs. everyone else     153
The Importance of Being Exceptional: Citizens vs. dependents     177
The Falling Camel: Last legs     193
Acknowledgments     215
Index     217

What People are Saying About This

John OSullivan

"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, and author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister)

Michelle Malkin

"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)