Synopses & Reviews
The national bestseller that shocked the nation--
The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power.
The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation.
The Death of the West details how a civilization, culture, and moral order are passing away and foresees a new world order that has terrifying implications for our freedom, our faith, and the preeminence of American democracy.
The Death of the West is a timely, provocative study that asks the question that quietly troubles millions: Is the America we grew up in gone forever?
Patrick J. Buchanan, a senior advisor to three American presidents, ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1992 and 1996, and was the Reform Party's presidential candidate in 2000. The author of five other books, including the bestsellers Right from the Beginning and A Republic, Not an Empire, he is a syndicated columnist and a founding member of three of America's foremost public affairs shows, NBC's The McLaughlin Group, CNN's The Capitol Gang, and Crossfire.
The West is dying, longtime conservative pundit and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan writes. In The Death of the West he predicts that collapsing birth rates in Europe and the United States, coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as immigration polarizes every Western society and nation. Drawing on U.N. population projections, recent U.S. census figures, and expert policy studies, he foresees the future decay of both Europe and America and the decline of Western culture. Buchanan contends that the immigrant-laden U.S. now harbors a "nation within a nation," that Europe will be inundated by an Islamic-Arab-African invasion, and that most First World nations, including Japan, have begun slowly to vanish from the earth.
Aside from a rapidly aging population, Buchanan further argues that the counter-culture of the 1960s has now become America's dominant ethos, and is systematically demolishing America's history and heritage. He foresees a new world that has profound implications for American freedom and faith, and the preeminence of American democracy.
"Maverick presidential candidate Buchanan decries the end of Western civilization portended by declining birth rates, out-of-control immigration, and loss of Christian and Jewish faith in Europe and non-Hispanic North America. Indeed, the UN estimates on which he bases his first contention, which project large declines in the indigenous populations of Germany, Britain, Italy, Russia, and westernized Japan, in particular, are alarming in terms of the social services required by burgeoning numbers of elderly. Unless trends change, immigration must fuel growth in workforces and, hence, tax bases. That's happening, so what's the problem? Well, those immigrants come from very different cultures at a time when Western elites discourage Western enculturation. Buchanan traces those elites' attitudes to 'Four Who Made a Revolution,' the Marxist theorists Lukacs, Gramsci, Adorno, and Marcuse, who directed a 'long march through the institutions' (Gramsci's phrase) of the arts, education, the media, and even the churches. The Left's power has grown steadily since the 1930s, and now there is a leftist capitalism to go with leftist politics, hence the European Union and the many global free-trade schemes. At this point, Buchanan turns to the U.S and updates his familiar positions on schooling, the quarantining of religion, and the intimidation of opponents of the Left. In the end, he counsels specific tactics for another Gramscian long march, this time animated by the soul of the West."Ray Olson, Booklist
Synopsis
The national bestseller that shocked the nation--
The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power.
The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation.
The Death of the West details how a civilization, culture, and moral order are passing away and foresees a new world order that has terrifying implications for our freedom, our faith, and the preeminence of American democracy.
The Death of the West is a timely, provocative study that asks the question that quietly troubles millions: Is the America we grew up in gone forever?
About the Author
Patrick J. Buchanan, a senior advisor to three American presidents, ran twice for the Republican nomination for president in 1992 and 1996, and was the Reform Party's presidential candidate in 2000. The author of five other books, including the bestsellers
Right from the Beginning and
A Republic, Not an Empire, he is a syndicated columnist and a founding member of three of America's foremost public affairs shows, NBC's
The McLaughlin Group, CNN's
The Capitol Gang, and
Crossfire.