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America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, by Mark Steyn (Regnery, 256 pp., $27.95)

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'LIVE free or die; death is not the worst of evils." That 1809 message, sent by General John Stark to his Revolutionary War comrades 32 years after the battle of Bennington, is now New Hampshire's motto. Granite State resident Mark Steyn takes General Stark at his word. In contrast to the pampered charges of Europe's bloated nanny-state, says Steyn, only free and self-supporting citizens, willing to stand up and fight, have a shot at winning the existential struggle with radical Islam ...

Wait a second: "have a shot"? Mark Steyn ...

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