The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization

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$19.38 - $26.04
UPC:
9780312340483
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
8/21/2007
Release Date:
8/21/2007
Author:
Diana West
Language:
english
Edition:
a

Product Overview

Diana WestseesaUSfilled withmiddle-ageguysplaying air guitar andthinks No wonder we can'tstopIslamic terrorism. Shesees Moms Who Mosh and wonders Is there a singleadult leftanywhere? But,the grown-ups are all gone. The disease that killed themwas incubated in the sixties to a rock-and-roll score,took holdin theseventieswiththe helpof multicultralismandleftuswith a nation of eternal adolescents who can'tdecide between good and bad , a generation who can't say no .From the inability to nix a sixteen year-old's requestfor Marilyn Manson concert tickets tooffering adolescentsparentally-funded motel roomson prom night to rationalizingmurderous actsof Islamic suicide bombers withplatitudes of cultural equivalence,West seesus on a slippery slope that's lead to a time when America has forgotten its place in the world.In The Death of theGrown-Up Diana Westservesupaprovocative critique of ourdangerously indecisiveworldleavened withhumor and shot through with insight.

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