num_pages: 256
description: 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 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".  From 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.  In The Death of the Grown-Up Diana West serves up a provocative critique of our dangerously indecisive world leavened with humor and shot through with insight.
language: English
title: The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
titlecomplete: The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
genres: Cultural, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Education, Parenting, Sociology, History, Society
ratings_count: 226
publisher: St. Martin's Press