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050  00  $aE895$b.S84 2006
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100  1   $aSteyn, Mark.
245  10  $aAmerica alone :$bthe end of the world as we know
         it /$cMark Steyn.
260      $aWashington, DC :$bRegnery Pub. ;$aLanham, MD
         :$bDistributed to the trade by National Book
         Network,$cc2006.
300      $axxx, 224 p. ;$c24 cm.
500      $aIncludes index.
504      $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505  0   $aPt. I. The gelded age.  The coming of age: births
         vs. deaths ; Going... going... gone: demography vs. delusion
         ; Men are from Venus: primary impulses vs. secondary
         impulses. -- Pt. II. Arabian night.  Flying the coop: big Mo
         vs. Big Mac ; The anything they'll believe in: church vs.
         state ; The four horsemen of the Eupocalypse: Eutopia vs.
         Eurabia. -- Pt. III. The new dark ages... and how to lighten
         up.  The state-of-the-art primitive: the known unknowns vs.
         the knowingly unknowing ; The unipole apart: America vs.
         everyone else ; The importance of being exceptional:
         citizens vs. dependents ; The falling camel: last legs.
520  1   $a"Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to
         prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are." "The future,
         as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And
         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, 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 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."
520  8   $a"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 own sake as well as theirs."--BOOK JACKET.
650   0  $aWorld politics$y1989-
650   0  $aIslam and politics.
650   0  $aCivilization, Western.
650   0  $aTwenty-first century$vForecasts.
651   0  $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y2001-
651   0  $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1970-
651   0  $aEurope$xCivilization$y1945-
856  41  $3Table of contents
         only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006024828.html