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  <title><![CDATA[America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It]]></title>
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  <default-description>In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn--probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world--takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone.  The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">9</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2006</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mark Steyn]]></name>
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  <votes>8</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 13 14:12:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 01 12:23:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes this stellar book is about demography. But it is also about civilizational will. Western civilization has given so many hard earned gifts to the world (if you don't know what these gifts I speak of are, I would humbly ask you to read anything from historian Will Durant or Paul Johnson). The ques...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3040763">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 11 14:50:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 11 14:50:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To put it simply, I really liked this book.  From the writer's style and wit to the information conveyed, this is your typical &quot;can't put down&quot; book.  For those of you who aren't quite convinced that &quot;global warming&quot; is THE greatest threat to life as we know it, this book is for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1859034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20572937">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who cares about their own rights and liberty.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 21 19:44:20 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 08:32:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 21 19:43:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Steyn succinctly brings to bear tons of statistics, facts and news articles in order to shine some light on the current global political issues and trends so that we can see a little further down the tunnel.  Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much light at the end and this is through no f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20572937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8656383">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those who doubt the war against FIF]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 04 12:27:50 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 04 12:31:45 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Fundamentalist Islamic Fascism&quot; is my acronym for the continuing struggle, what the namby-pamby call the &quot;war&quot; on &quot;terrorism.&quot; But terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology, and Islam is the ideology we are contending with, and will continue to contend with, as Steyn's bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8656383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21532292">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 03 14:28:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 22 16:04:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr Steyn's main premise rests on three pillars:<br/><br/>1. The West is in demographic decline while Muslim nations breed at a far higher rate.<br/>2. The West is too bulky with bloated government and social welfare programs that cannot be sustained.<br/>3. We are too tired (what he terms &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21532292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20102265">
  <user id="580529">
    <name><![CDATA[Neil]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sahuarita, AZ]]></location>        
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    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 13 21:11:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 27 10:45:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off, I have serious issues with the narrator of this book.  He is the same as the narrator of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7451.Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man">Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</a>, which I hated partly because the narrator sounded so smug and arrogant - I hated it the restly because it was just crap.  I read the introduction of this book onlin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20102265">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3737093">
  <user id="119374">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Nobody.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 29 06:34:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 29 06:43:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a waste of trees and space, especially in the overcrowded North Asian country where it was given to me. It also disgraces the hardback book format.<br/>I have no difficulty reading books with views that differ from mine, but I do not read stupid books.<br/>The preface alone characteri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3737093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2256837">
  <user id="147102">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephen]]></name>
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    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[conservatives]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 22 10:55:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 22 11:06:10 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steyn has created an amusing but also insightful and at times, frightening depiction of what the world may look like 20-30 years from now. This &quot;Armageddon&quot; book however is different from the regular apocalyptic fare. Instead of a prophecy of missile attacks or demons emerging from volcano...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2256837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13077548">
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    <name><![CDATA[Phil]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[10th Grade Civics Classes]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 21 13:08:53 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 21 15:41:19 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is the Welfare State leading us down the road to extinction? You bet, says Mark Stein and then he proceeds to make such a good case for that and the resulting Islamicization of Europe that he has been hauled before the Ontario Human Rights Commission on a charge of anti-PC heresy. This is a chilling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13077548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="602027">
  <user id="51398">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone interested in current events]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 06 09:41:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 06 09:48:08 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Steyn argues a frightening case:<br/>Native Europeans are not having children at anywhere near the &quot;replacement rate&quot; of 2.1 children per woman, while Muslim immigrants are having 5,6,7, or more children per woman.  Given this population dynamic, within our lifetimes, Europe will bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/602027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23376137">
  <user id="1085231">
    <name><![CDATA[Joyce]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat May 31 09:18:41 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 31 09:24:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[THIS BOOK GIVES A REALISTIC VIEW OF IMPORTANT DEMOGRAPHIC AND POLITICAL TRENDS IN THE WESTERN WORLD.  THE INFORMATION IT PRESENTS IS EXCELLENT BACKGROUND FOR POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING.  EVEN THOUGH THE AUTHOR IS WRITING ABOUT A SERIOUS SUBJECT AND BRINGING IN LOTS OF STATISTICS, HIS STYLE IS SUCCINC...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23376137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21497052">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 02 21:19:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 19 11:21:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Steyn hits a home run. He will definitely dent the minds of pacifists with this new book. His writing is literally laugh out funny and hard hitting at the same time. Everything he points out in the book is factually accurate. Islamofascism is 'THE GREATEST' threat facing the free democratic soc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21497052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23656092">
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 03 21:08:51 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 03 21:14:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Realized what I had already known from living in Europe for 2 years about population decline in the western world.  A great way for a people to take over the world these days is to have lots of kids.  Great information that everyone should know about how to protect ourselves from political correctne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23656092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26262586">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 03 20:07:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 03 20:22:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Canadian Steyn inject quite a bit of humor into this book, which you'll probably like if you tend towards the conservative, but which may strike a discordant note if your sympathies lie elsewhere.  Steyn presents the case that radical Islam of the Wahabi strain has been aggressively exported aro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26262586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4780643">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 19 16:31:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 19 16:35:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be the best, and scariest, book I've read in a long time.  Mr. Steyn foretells the end of a liberated western civilization as we know it, and makes you laugh about the absurdity of it all at the same time.  Mr. Steyn repeatedly points out the hypocrisy of those in the media who seem to want...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4780643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7943770">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone willing to face the state of the world]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 19 11:53:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 19 12:01:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The world that we know will not remain for very long if current trends continue.  This book is the perfect antidote to claims that we are about to over-populate the planet.  In fact, European countries have negative birth rates and the next fifty years could see major changes in their demographics. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7943770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7810019">
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    <body><![CDATA[The scariest thing about this book is the number of people it sucked into its black hole as easy as pie. I tried to find a single professional critique of the book and failed. Finally I hit the blogosphere and found the sanity debunking much of Steyn's claims.<br/><br/>People are taking everything...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7810019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read Steyn online, in commentaries, and magazines, but never attempted a book by him. Shame on me! The guy is a delight, and incendiary to boot. How I knew I would like this book before I even cracked it: the cover quote. Usually these things are drippy and praise-laden, along the lines of &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/129903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frightening view of the future, if you enjoy freedom, value of the individual, democracy, human rights, education for women, separation of church and state, and other taken-for-granted causes of prosperity that were developed if not invented in the course of Western civilization. Unfortunately, Stey...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6403819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow this book definitely makes you think.  I can't say if everything that he says in here is true but most things really make sense.  <br/><br/>I love how he talked about people having the will to stand up and do something.  He also talked about how the welfare states are just shooting themselves ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15221105">more...</a>]]></body>
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