America is coming apart at the seams.  Forces foreign and domestic seek an end to U.S. sovereignty and independence.  Before us looms the prospect of an America breaking up along the lines of race, ethnicity, class and culture.  In Day of Reckoning, Pat Buchanan reveals the true existential crisis of the nation and shows how President Bush’s post-9/11 conversion to an ideology of “democratism” led us to the precipice of strategic disaster abroad and savage division at home.
 Ideology, writes Buchanan, is a Golden Calf, a false god, a secular religion that seeks vainly, like Marxism, to create a paradise on earth. 
 While free enterprise is good, the worship of a “free trade” that is destroying the dollar, de-industrializing America, and ending our economic independence, is cult madness.  While America must stand for freedom and self-determination, the use of U.S. troops to police the planet or serve as advance guard of some “world democratic revolution” is, as Iraq shows, imperial folly that will bring ruin to the republic. While America should speak out for human rights, the idea that we get in Russia’s face and hand out moral report cards to every nation on earth is moral arrogance.  While we have benefited from immigration and the melting pot worked with millions of Europeans, the idea we can import endless millions of aliens, legal and illegal, from every culture, clime, creed, and continent on earth, and still remain a country, is absurd. 
 To save America the first imperative is to remove from power the ideologues of both parties who have nearly killed our country. 
 In his final chapter, Buchanan lays out ideas to prevent the end of America.  He calls for a bottom-up review of all of America’s Cold War commitments, a ten-point program to secure America’s borders, ideas to halt the erosion of our national sovereignty and restore our manufacturing preeminence and economic independence, and a formula for finding the way to a cold peace in the culture wars. 
 Buchanan offers a radical but necessary program, for neither party is addressing the real crisis of America -- whether we survive as one nation and people, or disintegrate into what Theodore Roosevelt called a “tangle of squabbling nationalities” and not a nation at all. IN THIS EYE-OPENING BOOK, PAT BUCHANAN REVEALS THE PERILOUS PATH OUR NATION HAS TAKEN:


- Pax Americana -- the era of U.S. global dominance -- is over.


- A struggle for world hegemony among the United States, China, a resurgent Russia and radical Islam has begun.


- Torn apart by a culture war, America has begun to Balkanize and break down along class, cultural, ethnic, and racial lines.


- Free trade is hollowing out U.S. industry, destroying the dollar, and plunging the country into permanent dependency and unpayable debt.


- One of every six U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished under Bush.


- The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to U.S. survival than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq. 


…IS OUR DAY OF RECKONING JUST AHEAD? Patrick J. Buchanan, America’s leading traditional conservative, was a senior adviser to three American presidents, ran twice for the Republican presidential nomination, in 1992 and 1996, and was the Reform Party’s candidate in 2000. The author of eight other books, including the bestsellers Right from the Beginning; A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death of the West; Where the Right Went Wrong; and State of Emergency, he is a syndicated columnist and a founding member of three of America’s foremost public affairs shows, NBC’s The McLaughlin Group and CNN’s The Capitol Gang and Crossfire. He lives in McLean, Virginia. It seems as though America is coming apart at the seams. Forces foreign and domestic seek an end to U.S. sovereignty and independence and the prospect of an America breaking up along the lines of race, ethnicity, class and culture looms. In Day of Reckoning, Patrick Buchanan reveals his interpretation of the nation's existential crisis and shows how President Bush’s post-9/11 conversion to an ideology of  “democratism" may have led us to the precipice of strategic disaster abroad and savage division at home.Ideology, writes Buchanan, is a Golden Calf, a false god, a secular religion that seeks vainly, like Marxism, to create a paradise on earth. While free enterprise is good, he likens the worship of a “free trade” that is destroying the dollar, de-industrializing America, and ending our economic independence, to cult madness. While America must stand for freedom and self-determination, he believes that the use of U.S. troops to police the planet or serve as advance guard against “world democratic revolution” is, as Iraq shows, imperial folly that will bring ruin to the republic. While America should speak out for human rights, he writes that it is morally arrogant to confront Russia and hand out moral report cards to other nations. While we have benefited from immigration and the melting pot has worked with millions of Europeans, Buchanan finds absurd the idea we can import millions of aliens, legal and illegal, from every culture, clime, creed, and continent, and still remain a country.


To save America, according to Buchanan, the first imperative is to remove from power the ideologues of both parties who have put the country in jeopardy. In his final chapter, Buchanan lays out ideas to prevent the end of America. He calls for a bottom-up review of all of America’s Cold War commitments, a ten-point program to secure America’s borders, ideas to halt the erosion of our national sovereignty and restore our manufacturing preeminence and economic independence, and a formula for finding the way to a cold peace in the culture wars. Buchanan offers a radical program, for neither party is addressing the real crisis of America—whether we survive as one nation and people, or disintegrate into what Theodore Roosevelt called a “tangle of squabbling nationalities” and not a nation at all. WITH HIS INCISIVE MIND AND RAZOR-SHARP PEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT BUCHANAN TAKES ON THE GREATEST QUESTION FACING THE NATION: WILL THE AMERICA WE KNOW AND LOVE SURVIVE ?


"Buchanan can write, and he knows how to provoke. His foreign policy prescriptions—withdraw from NATO, abandon our commitments to Taiwan and South Korea and pretty much everywhere else in the world—are not likely to be adopted by the nominee of either major party in 2008, but he presents them forcefully and often persuasively. They deserve a wider hearing in American politics than they are currently given, if only to challenge the adherents of the prevailing orthodoxy to question their assumptions."—Chris Suellentrop, The New York Times


"Buchanan's vigor and urgency make this book spellbinding . . . If you read no other book by Buchanan, read this one."—Booklist