The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Book Overview

The national bestseller that shocked the nation-- The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power. The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312285485
• ISBN13: 9780312285487
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Eye Opener

This book is a real eye opener. From collapsing birth rates in the Western World to skyrocketing third world populations, America’s heritage is being threatened.

Speaking the truth is not racist...

I found this book extremely informative.The things that made the successes of Western Civilization are waning.We sense it and in this book Buchanan provides the facts.The falling birth rates,family breakdowns,single parent low income households, rationalization replacing morals,multi-ethnic and multi-cultural loyalties replacing unity,you name it.It is hard to find any aspect of Western Civilization that has improved for a long time;in fact there has been a great decline. The facts speak for themselves,and to label Buchanan a Racist for talking about these issues shows how vicious leftists can be.It seem that all it takes to be a Racist for them, is to disagree with any part of their agenda. The agenda that it takes a village to raise a child comes from failed socialistic and communistic ideologies.The proper place to raise a child is in a well adjusted family with minimal government interference;and has been proven throughout history. If you feel everything is in good shape,don't bother reading this book,just go on believing all the ills are caused by the religious right and racists.However;if you want to find out why there are so many problems and where we are heading,you'll find this book very informative.

It's the End of the World as we Know it!

And Patrick Buchanan doesn't feel fine. The erstwhile presidential candidate, Nixon aide, polemicist, and political commentator is possibly one of the most wilfully misunderstood and maligned political pundits writing in America today, and when I began Death of the West I wasn't certain what to expect. I was therefore pleasantly surprised, and subsequently riveted; Death of the West escapes the typical political clunkiness and idiosyncracies that plague Buchanan's columns, and delivers a stark, depressing, and alarming portrait of the nation in which all of us will grow old. The Death of the West maintains that demographics is destiny: affluent, decadent, morally relativistic Westerners are not having children and not replacing themselves, while the more fecund but impoverished Third World population is exploding. Buchanan projects that if current population trends continue, America and Europe will be third-world countries with alien cultures by 2050. Death of the West is not just a dire Malthusian screed; Buchanan spices up his jeremiad by moving from the West's demographics of death to the skirmishes and routs of the American Culture War. Buchanan's treatment of the development of Cultural Marxism and its influence on American liberal thinkers and revolutionaries in the 1960s is scholarly and full of new insight, and highlights the role that grey little scholars like Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno, and Lukacs had on creating the world of political correctness and moral relativism in which we live. According to Buchanan, while revolutionary Marxism died throughout the world, cultural marxism was inseminated in the American academy by these scholar-revolutionaries, and from the sixties to the present American leftists conducted a successful "long march through the institutions", seizing the cultural high ground from which to shape, change, alter, de-christianize and destroy traditional American culture. The Death of the West is a solid, gripping read, although it is depressing and melancholy in only the way that a eulogy to a once vital civilization can be. Conservative or traditionalist readers will find it a revolutionary book, while liberals might be surprised by the intellectual taproots of their philosophy.

A sobering look at America

Buchanan brings out with pinpoint clarity the problems that America and the Western nations face within the next 5 - 40 years, given present population and cultural trends. The book should be required reading in schools (although I know that will never happen). As our small towns, the middle class, and U.S. jobs continue to shrink (through outsourcing of jobs and complete operations), and with terrorism expected to continue, Americans need to take action and get involved fully in their community, or we are headed to third world status.America critically needs leaders, not politicians, in politics and the corporate world. Maybe you will be a leader who has the integrity and honesty who can set an example for a positive effect on others. Americans yearn for the simple days of the Waltons, with the focus on family and a life centered on Christian values, not television, a job, or the Internet, and a safe community. Where prayer is allowed in schools, and common sense is the rule of the day instead of the exception. America has lost its' purpose, and foundings, which are based on freedom and belief in God. That is what will turn this country around, not selfish New Age beliefs that have no basis in morals or fact, not class action suits for everything imaginable, not catering to specific groups in the name of diversity instead of qualifications, not big corporations who export jobs and pay their top executives astronomical salaries and perks.Be knowledgeable of the facts facing our country, your children, grandchildren, and you. Read the book. Become involved in your country, your community, your church, and your quality of life. Otherwise, sit back and watch as we join the Roman Empire in the history books.

Alarm bells are sounding

Even though the book starts off with some false presuppositions,in particular, those involving Russia's current status, the degree to which it is cited and sourced in the controversial areas is beyond outstanding. It is a tome not just on politics but also on history, sociology, ethnic development, cultural evolution and contrastives, and religion to name just a few. It spans a broad enough historical continuum that the cycles through which civilizations repeatedly pass is solidly documented and made clear. Written very analytically but in a layman's terms so it's also a fast read. It doesn't just lay out some problems but it also lays out solutions to the problems. Strikes at the passions of what we all as a nation should be most concerned with-our preservation and our posterity. Belongs in every home.

I'm noright wing Buchanan follower......but I love this guy!

I'm not much of a book reader, but when I do read I get into it, in one sitting. Buchanan, love him or hate him, makes some scary & truthful points. Scary enough to make me happy I will not be around at the end of the century. His statistics and point of view are on the money throughout the book. His questioning of patriotism that America & what America stands for comes first, before feelings and beliefs of your country of origin (Coming to America in '79 is the best thing that ever happened to my life) is absolutely correct. This is & continues to be the greatest country on Earth. If you immigrate here, bring your beliefs and philosophies, but do not dare trample on the beliefs that this country was founded on. I'm not much of a religious person, but it is hard not to agree with Pat on the decline of Western Civilization. On the bright side, Pat, rest assured that many of my 30 something's are having 2 + children, hopefully this will reverse the prophecies of your book. This was a fantastic read and it is making the rounds amongst many of my friends. This book should be required reading in high school. A reality check to what kind of country our kids may inherit.