Patrick Buchanan, Unhappy Warrior

Patrick Buchanan may be a happy warrior in the mold of his hero Ronald Reagan, but in most of his recent books he has disputed that it is morning in America. Buchanan's New York Times best-sellers Day of Reckoning, State of Emergency, and Death of the West have all painted portraits of decline. In the subtitle of his latest, Suicide of a Superpower, he asks, "Will America survive to 2025?"