Tuesday, June 24, 2008

South Texian: The Last Days of Europe

"The Last Days of Europe

Following Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept and Claire Berlinski's Menace in Europe, the latest tome on the subject of Europe's decline I have read is The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent by Walter Laqueur. Laqueur's perspective on Europe's crisis differs from that of Bawer and Berlinski in part from his personal circumstances. Unlike Bawer and Berlinski – American expatriates living in Europe – Laqueur is a native European (born in Germany in 1921) who emigrated to the then British Mandate of Palestine (later the Republic of Israel) and has since become an American citizen, living alternately in the United Kingdom and the United States."

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