{"product_id":"the-death-of-the-grown-up-9780312340490","title":"The Death of the Grown-Up","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative look at the rise of youth culture, the worship of perpetual adolescence, and the sorry spectacle of adults shirking the responsibilities of maturity. Firebrand conservative columnist Diana West looks at the mess America is in and wonders \"Where did all the grown-ups go?\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks \"No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism.\" She sees a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too \"young\" to call themselves \"mister\" 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 with the help of multicultralism and left us with a nation of eternal adolescents who can't decide between \"good\" and \"bad\", a generation who can't say \"no\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of \"diversity,\" from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the \"PC\"-ing of \"Mary Poppins,\" all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9\/11 world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the inability to nix a sixteen year-old's request for Marilyn Manson concert tickets to offering adolescents parentally-funded motel rooms on prom night to rationalizing murderous acts of Islamic suicide bombers with platitudes of cultural equivalence, West sees us on a slippery slope that's lead to a time when America has forgotten its place in the world. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiana West serves up a provocative critique of our dangerously indecisive world leavened with humor and shot through with insight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDIANA WEST is a syndicated columnist whose essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePublic Interest, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Magazine, The Washington Times \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Weekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written fiction for\u003ci\u003e The Atlantic Monthly.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565655331090,"sku":"9780312340490","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2074d757-0698-4c92-91a4-16ec707ca105.jpg?v=1731887257","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-death-of-the-grown-up-9780312340490","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}