America Alone, Mark Steyn
America Alone, Mark Steyn
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America Alone
The End of the World As We Know It

Author: Mark Steyn

Narrator: Brian Emerson

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. While liberals will say diversity is our strength, the Taliban will burn books and barber shops in Greenwich Village and the Supreme Court will uphold sharia law. If you think this cant happen, you havent been paying attention, says Steyn.

About Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn has written on war, politics, the arts, and culture in such publications as Atlantic Monthly and Australian. He is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, New York Sun, Washington Times, and New Criterion and in Canada for Western Standard and Maclean’s. Born in Toronto, he lives in New Hampshire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carlton on April 01, 2008

Yes this stellar book is about demography. But it is also about civilizational will. Western civilization has given so many hard earned gifts to the world (if you don't know what these gifts I speak of are, I would humbly ask you to read anything from historian Will Durant or Paul Johnson). The ques......more

Goodreads review by Kenny on November 04, 2007

"Fundamentalist Islamic Fascism" is my acronym for the continuing struggle, what the namby-pamby call the "war" on "terrorism." But terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology, and Islam is the ideology we are contending with, and will continue to contend with, as Steyn's book so aptly points out: it's a......more

Goodreads review by Amanda R on June 11, 2007

To put it simply, I really liked this book. From the writer's style and wit to the information conveyed, this is your typical "can't put down" book. For those of you who aren't quite convinced that "global warming" is THE greatest threat to life as we know it, this book is for you. The author's cove......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on May 31, 2008

THIS BOOK GIVES A REALISTIC VIEW OF IMPORTANT DEMOGRAPHIC AND POLITICAL TRENDS IN THE WESTERN WORLD. THE INFORMATION IT PRESENTS IS EXCELLENT BACKGROUND FOR POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING. EVEN THOUGH THE AUTHOR IS WRITING ABOUT A SERIOUS SUBJECT AND BRINGING IN LOTS OF STATISTICS, HIS STYLE IS SUCCINCT,......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on March 11, 2011

Some of you will dislike this book without reading it, I accept that and live with it. All I can do is encourage you to take a look at it and it's subject matter with an open mind. Being honest with yourself is not the same as being "prejudiced". You're only prejudiced if you make up your mind witho......more