The Death of the Grown-Up by Diana West

The Death of the Grown-Up by Diana West

WHERE HAVE AL 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.

West, Diana: - Diana West is the author of The Death of the Grown-Up. She writes a syndicated column that appears in about 120 newspapers and online sites weekly, including the Washington Examiner, Townhall.com, and Worldnetdaily.com. She is also an online contributor to Breitbart's BigPeace. Her work has appeared in many publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New Criterion, and The Washington Post Magazine, and her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. She has made numerous television appearances as a CNN contributor to Lou Dobbs Tonight and Lou Dobbs This Week. West is also vice president of The International Free Press Society, and co-author of Shariah: The Threat to America, a book-length study by 19 national security experts including former CIA director James Woolsey and former US Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy.

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ISBN 13	9780312340490
ISBN 10	0312340494
Title	The Death of the Grown-Up
Author	Diana West
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2008-09-16
Number of pages	272
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