Optimistic about America's future? Don't be. Mark Steyn believes America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction. It's not just our looming financial collapse; or our culture full of hapless, indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every problem; and it's not the drunken sailor policymaking in Washington...no, it's all those and more that spells one word for America: Armageddon. What will a world without American leadership look like? It won't be pretty for you or your children. America's decline won't be gradual. No, America's decline will be a wrenching affair marked by violence and possibly secession. With his trademark wit, Steyn delivers the depressing news with raw and unblinking honesty but also with the touch of vaudeville stand-up and soft shoe that makes him the most entertaining, yet profound, columnist on the planet. And as an immigrant with nowhere else to go, he offers his own prescription for winning America back from the feckless and arrogant liberal establishment that has done its level best to suffocate the world's last best hope in a cloud of debt, decay, and debility. You will not read a more important, a more alarming, or a wittier book all year.