After America: Get Ready for Armageddon [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Optimistic About America’s Future?
Don’t Be.


In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction.

It’s not just our looming financial collapse; it’s not just a culture that seems on a fast track to perdition, full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for ...
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Overview

Optimistic About America’s Future?
Don’t Be.


In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction.

It’s not just our looming financial collapse; it’s not just a culture that seems on a fast track to perdition, full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every problem; it’s not just America’s potential eclipse as a world power because of the drunken sailor policymaking in Washington—no, it’s all this and more that spells one word for America: Armageddon.

What will a world without American leadership look like? It won’t be pretty—not for you and not for your children. America’s decline won’t be gradual, like an aging Europe sipping espresso at a café until extinction (and the odd Greek or Islamist riot). No, America’s decline will be a wrenching affair marked by violence and possibly secession.

With his trademark wit, Steyn delivers the depressing news with raw and unblinking honesty—but also with the touch of vaudeville stand-up and soft shoe that makes him the most entertaining, yet profound, columnist on the planet. And as an immigrant with nowhere else to go, he offers his own prescription for winning America back from the feckless and arrogant liberal establishment that has done its level best to suffocate the world’s last best hope in a miasma of debt, decay, and debility. You will not read a more important—or more alarming, or even funnier—book all year than After America.

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The author of America Alone is back with another large parcel of bad news and sardonic humor. In his previous book, he prophesied the collapse of every country in the western world except the U.S. In his new offering, he describes our country's rapid descent into economic and geopolitical Armageddon. Steyn foresees a post-American world where China is the new superpower, the Middle East is dominated by Iran, and our domestic scene has descended into chaos. An energetic, witty appraisal of approaching doom.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781596982796
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 8/8/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 17,049
  • File size: 701 KB

Meet the Author

Mark Steyn is the bestselling author of the book America Alone. His writing on war, politics, the arts, and culture has appeared in almost every major newspaper around the world, from The Wall Street Journal to The Irish Times to The Australian. In the United States he is National Review’s “Happy Warrior,” as well as a regular guest-host on America’s number one radio show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and America’s number two cable news show, Hannity on Fox News. He lives in New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Stupidity of Broke 1

Chapter One The New Rome 25

Chapter Two Undreaming America 45

Chapter Three The New Athens 103

Chapter Four Decline 127

Chapter Five The New Britannia 189

Chapter Six Fall 211

Chapter Seven The New Jerusalem 269

Chapter Eight After 279

Epilogue: The Hope of Audacity 325

Acknowledgments 351

Notes 353

Index 405

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  • Posted September 11, 2011

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    Eye opening and highly recommend read

    For those who love to keep on the cutting edge of information especially about this great nation that we live in. This book is another eye-opening, great detailed, informative book that would give great insight in where our nation is going.
    A must read for these troubled times.

    5 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 19, 2011

    Excellent!

    A fine read in typical Mark Steyn style. His "what if?" approach and theories for America's outcome if we continue to hurtle down the path we are now on. Parallels to the decline of European nations and the interaction of that bunch of nations and the United States...and how we can look like the 3rd world if we choose to continue in the downward direction we are being forced to travel presently. A sobering conjecture to make you think what things could look like if we don't abort this ride to doom.

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 29, 2012

    Great read

    Very insightful

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2012

    America is dead..

    Most politicians are communist destroying the country from within and about to slam us with endless tyranny and loss of human rights.....welcome to hell..

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2012

    A Book You Love to Hate

    Steyn is not as humorous and witty as book cover reviewers would have you believe. He uses an age old technique of laying the foundation for his eventual rant with anecdotes about social, political and economic observations and situations which have you nodding in agreement. Then he lays out his conservative ipso facto: if you agree with Point A and B, then you must agree with the root cause of C.

    He is an example of why politics has gone beyond annoying to downright scary.

    0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2012

    Borrring................and predictable

    I should have known by the title of the book to be leery. I purchased it and was very disappointed. I wouldn't recommend this book.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 22, 2011

    More Classic Steyn

    More laughing towards the apocalypse with Steyn.

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