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Diana West : The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
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Author: Diana West
Title: The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
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Published in: English
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Date: 2007-08-21
ISBN: 0312340486
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Size: 159 x x 237.5 centimeters
Edition: First Edition
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Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism."  She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single adult left anywhere?"  But, the grown-ups are all gone.  The disease that killed them was incubated in the sixties to a rock-and-roll score, took hold in the seventies with the help of multicultralism and left us with a nation of eternal adolescents who can't decide between "good" and "bad", a generation who can't say "no".  From the inability to nix a sixteen year-old's request for Marilyn Manson concert tickets to offering adolescents parentally-funded motel rooms on prom night to rationalizing murderous acts of Islamic suicide bombers with platitudes of cultural equivalence, West sees us on a slippery slope that's lead to a time when America has forgotten its place in the world.  In The Death of the Grown-Up Diana West serves up a provocative critique of our dangerously indecisive world leavened with humor and shot through with insight.
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