The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Diana West: (Primary Author)