America Alone

The End of the World as We Know It

By: Mark Steyn

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

It's the end of the world as we know it. Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer of a muezzin. Europeans already do.

Liberals tell us that "diversity is our strength", while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, while the Supreme Court decides that sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state", and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.

If you think this can't happen, you haven't been paying attention, as the hilarious and provocative columnist Mark Steyn shows to devastating effect in this, his first book on American and global politics.

©2006 Mark Steyn (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.

Critic reviews

"America Alone is Mark Steyn at his best: funny and irreverent, even while assembling well-reasoned and complex arguments in support of serious insights." (Human Events)
"In America Alone Steyn's acerbic wit and relentless pursuit of politically incorrect truths show how Islam is gradually conquering the West by reverse assimilation, aided and abetted by global-warming ecochondriacs, craven multiculturalists, and self-detonating Islamists of the Muslim baby boom." (Jed Babbin, author of Inside the Asylum)

comprehensive account of the challenge ahead.

at this date this read like history rather than an account of relatively recent events. The work did a good job of tying centuries old accounts of the Islamists to similar events of the current era perpetrated by the same bad actors and does a good job as well of linking the extremists and so called moderates.

Got to read more from Mark Steyn

I'm just through the Introduction and can't believe how funny, insightful and provocative Steyn is. Not going to matter if Martha's Vineyard is under water if we're living in a bankrupt, Sharia-ruled country. Good to read an author who understands that losing in Iraq is not an option.

A Warning for the World

Mark Steyn's overview of the subjugation of Europe as they wilt before their Muslim immigrants is powerful indictment of western civilization today. Since he has lived in the society he is describing, the anger and disgust he displays is understandable.

Mr. Steyn's warning to America about bringing a Muslim culture to the country and then allowing it to be completely separate is very clear. The way in which Muslims always attack, claim victim status (sacred in Western culture), and then work to destroy the freedoms under which they live is laid out for all to see.

About TIME!

It is about time someone compaired the world to the muslim world. I understand that not ALL muslims are terrorist. However, you do not see the throngs of outcry when one of the psychos goes off either. Until I see thoes throngs of outcry I cannot & will not beleave islam is a religon of love & peace. The western worlds need for a PC life will be its downfall.

Fascinating and Funny

If there's anyone who can be funny while listing some of the most depressing statistics and info it's Mark Steyn. This is a must read to get the big picture on the threat of Islam.

Interesting ...

Good topic and thought provoking ideas. Deliberately inflammatory, which can sometimes be eye rolling.

Pace and diction by reader terrible. Almost occasionally unlistenable.

Narrator channeled the author really well

Narrator channeled the author really well. Steyn entertains and frightens at the same time.
Recommended highly.

Timeless

The author uses the now strange concepts of chronology, and math to vividly illustrate what should be by now, painfully obvious. His use of comparative sarcasm and wit make it an easy read.
But is it too late?

Be better read by author

Incredible content and witty as only Steyn can write however would have rather the book be read by him like his other After America. Still the narrator does a good enough job.

THE DEC LINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION

This was my introduction to Mark Steyrn and indeed what an introduction.It will not please those of the left but it will inform the rest of us. Steyrn coragously puts a point of view that is, I suspect held by a majority but regretably not diseminated well a great read reminds me of the writings of Oriana Fallaci, she too made her point well and with courage. I will look for more of Steyrn