The vanishing American adult: our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance

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Sasse, Benjamin E.

Sasse, Benjamin E.

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Adult Non-Fiction
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Eva H. Perry Regional - Audio Books - Adult Nonfiction
Morrisville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Audio Books - Adult Nonfiction
Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Remote Storage - Adult Non-Fiction
Remote Storage - Audio Books - Adult Nonfiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Southeast Regional - Audio Books - Adult Nonfiction

America's youth are in crisis. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, they are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding--learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant--are being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body--and explains how parents can encourage them. Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to function properly; without them, America falls prey to populist demagogues. With this call to arms in the tradition of The Closing of the American Mind and manifesto for parents in the tradition of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Sasse intends to ignite a much-needed debate about the link between the way we're raising our children and the future of our country.

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Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional

9781250114402

2017

Macmillan Audio
St. Martin's Press

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Adulthood
Adulthood -- United States
Audiobooks
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Teenagers
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Self-reliance
Self-reliance -- United States
United States
Young adults
Young adults -- United States

The vanishing American adult : our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance

The vanishing American adult : our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance / Ben Sasse
The vanishing American adult [sound recording] : our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance / Ben Sasse

The vanishing American adult

our coming-of-age crisis--and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance

Adulthood
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Teenagers
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Self-reliance
Young adults