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- ISBN
- 9780312340490
- Book Title
- Death of the Grown-Up : How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Psychology, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Popular Culture, Sociology / Marriage & Family
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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"WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?" That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here's what she finds: It's difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too "young" to call themselves "mister." Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism. We haven't put away our toys " As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can't say "no," a politically correct population that doesn't know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the "culture wars" in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the "real" culture war of the 21st century--the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of "diversity," from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the "PC"-ing of "Mary Poppins," all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312340494
ISBN-13
9780312340490
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109628177
Product Key Features
Book Title
Death of the Grown-Up : How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Popular Culture, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Psychology, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
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A serious work by an author highly engaged with the world in which she lives. West deserves to be heard., West writes with great flair. She has a columnist's talent for seizing arresting facts and locating the sort of outrageous incident guaranteed to make the blood boil., "West writes with great flair. She has a columnist's talent for seizing arresting facts and locating the sort of outrageous incident guaranteed to make the blood boil." -- The New York Times "A serious work by an author highly engaged with the world in which she lives. West deserves to be heard." -- New York Post, "West writes with great flair. She has a columnist's talent for seizing arresting facts and locating the sort of outrageous incident guaranteed to make the blood boil."--The New York Times"A serious work by an author highly engaged with the world in which she lives. West deserves to be heard."--New YorkPost, "West writes with great flair. She has a columnist's talent for seizing arresting facts and locating the sort of outrageous incident guaranteed to make the blood boil."--The New York Times "A serious work by an author highly engaged with the world in which she lives. West deserves to be heard."--New YorkPost, "West writes with great flair. She has a columnist's talent for seizing arresting facts and locating the sort of outrageous incident guaranteed to make the blood boil." --The New York Times "A serious work by an author highly engaged with the world in which she lives. West deserves to be heard." -- New York Post
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305.240973/09045
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Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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