William Tucker

Marriage and Civilization

How Monogamy Made Us Human

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marriage built civilization. Will its collapse lead to our downfall? In Marriage and Civilization, Tucker takes readers on a journey through the history of the human race to demonstrate how a pattern of life-long, monogamous pairings has enabled humans to build modern civilization. Drawing extensively on biological, anthropological, and historical evidence, Tucker makes the case that marriage is not only a desirable institution for societies, it’s actually the bedrock of civilization. Tucker also examines America (and the world)’s current marriage crisis, and the factors that have led to the decline of marriage, the dramatic rise of divorce, and the epidemic of single parenthood. He draws bold predictions about what could happen to American society of marriage collapses entirely, and he sketches out the threat from polygamous groups such as fundamental Muslim sects. Polygamy, Tucker argues, not only generates discontent and disorder within a society, but promotes violence against others. Monogamous marriage is vital not only to our domestic well-being, but our survival in the face of violent enemies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Skyhorse Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781621572015
• ISBN-10: 1621572013
• Artikelnr.: 39185188

Autorenporträt

William Tucker is a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's , The Atlantic, The American Spectator, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reader's Digest, Commentary, Life, Reason, the  Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications, and has been a regular columnist for the New York Post, the New York Press, and the New York Sun. He is the author of several books, including The Excluded Americans (winner of the Mencken Award) and two off-Broadway plays, including Freedom Summer about Mississippi in the summer of 1964. He lives in Stony Point, New York, with his wife, author Stephanie Gutmann.