America Alone
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| Author | Mark Steyn |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject |
Demography Sociology Politics |
| Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
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Publication date
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September 16, 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 70866885 |
| 303.48/273017670905 22 | |
| LC Class | E895 .S84 2006 |
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It is a nonfiction book by the Canadian newspaper columnist and writer Mark Steyn, published in 2006. It forecasts the downfall of Western civilization owing to internal weaknesses and the increasing Muslim population in Western countries and the world generally.
America Alone is set in the context of the global war on terror. Steyn argues that "much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive the twenty-first century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most European countries."
Steyn attributes the forecast fall of the Western world to three factors:
Steyn's final argument is that the Muslim world will not need to carry out an outright attack. Instead, Europe will collapse from "" or "multicultural 'sensitivity,'" leading to betrayal of the state's core values. Thus, during the Danish 'cartoon jihad' of 2006, Jack Straw, then British foreign secretary, hailed the 'sensitivity' of Fleet Street in not reprinting the offending representations of the Prophet."
Steyn dismisses the danger of climate change, The Population Bomb, The Limits to Growth, and nuclear winter.
Christopher Hitchens reviewed the book with praise, and describes it as "an admirably tough-minded book." Hitchens goes on in his review and states:
Mark Steyn's book is essentially a challenge to the among us: an insistence that we recognize an extraordinary threat and thus the possible need for extraordinary responses. He need not pose as if he were the only one with the courage to think in this way.
The British novelist Martin Amis also reviewed the book in The Times and hailed Steyn as the "great sayer of the unsayable" but goes on to state:
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