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Title: The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
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| The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by St. Martin's Press Some good points | The author makes some good points. However, the book is shallow and so extremely disorganized hat it is almost impossible to understand. She jumps from one illustrative situation to another to generalizations, with little rhyme or reason. It is too easy to get lost in a morass of details which are inadequately tied together into a coherent thesis.
| | The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by St. Martin's Press Not a good book. | | I must have a problem. I need to go back and read the book again because after the first reading I wasn't sure what I should be learning. Was this a book about anti-pronography or a description of the world threat of Islam? There were some interesting ideas, but I still put the book down wondering what I had learned about the death of grownuups. | | The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by St. Martin's Press An excellent analysis of our society's decline | | If you have ever wondered, "What happened to our nation or our civilized society?" then this book is for you. It covers the history of our societal and cultural change over the past 80 years and explains why adults in our society no longer act like adults. It then examines the effects of that lack of parenting on the children in our world. An excellent commentary on the decline of America. | | The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by St. Martin's Press great writer | | I disagree with the review that states that this book is poorly written if anything this book is written better than most non-fiction. The moment began reading I was engrossed as far as whether her claims are accurate I am still deciding.The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization | | The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by St. Martin's Press Lots of argument open to debate, ignorant on religion | | This book has many generalized arguments about how the traditional grown-up has been lost in our society. A number of arguments are logical, like mass media and consumer culture, but when West gets into Islam, her arguments turn into nonsense. She is simply another zealot who wants to mischaracterize another religion just because it isn't hers. Why did she have to ruin her book by such ignorant redneck blathering? The rest of her arguments are worth considering, but her ideas about Islam are totally absurd, untrue and sadly confused. | | The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by St. Martin's Press Product Description | 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. |
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