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In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. In American Betrayal, West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lies that Americans have been led to regard as the near-sacr...
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Author Diana West and a host of others − including authors M. Stanton Evans and Vladimir Bukovsky − defend her new book, "American Betrayal," against a wave of calumnious charges and vicious personal attacks....
Diana West is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character" (St. Martin's Press, 2013) and "The Death of the Grown-Up" (St. Martin's Press, 2007). "No Fear" offers a wide-ranging selection of West's weekly newspaper columns from 1999 to 2013, shining light on matters hidden beneath...
The Death of the Grown-Up
How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
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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 wit...