A Generation Abandoned

Beaulieus concern for our abandoned younger generations is wide-ranging and documented, but not pedantic. It does not water down, and does not talk down. It beckons. One illuminating device is the pairing of ideas, e.g., the progress and regression of culture, or our wonder at the science of Galileos telescope but our failure to embrace the reality of ultrasound. The author places into clear relief many modern-day mind traps that too often are accepted without thought. This work is recommended for all audiences, but especially millennials interested in an imaginative critique of current personal and cultural confusion. -- Andrew Tadie

Peter D. Beaulieu earned a bachelor of architecture degree and a doctorate in urban and regional planning, both from the University of Washington. His career includes a tour as a junior officer in the United States Navy, long public service, a hobby of freehand drawing, and a vocation as a husband and father. He served on the Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese of Seattle and was a founding member of the G. K. Chesterton Society of Seattle. His two earlier books are Kristi: So Thin is the Veil (Crossroads, 2006), a meditation on his late wifes serene path through terminal cancer, and Beyond Secularism and Jihad: A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger & Modernity (University Press of America, 2012).

Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Are We Really Alone? Chapter 2: The Packrat Factor Chapter 3: Nevertheless, it Moves Chapter 4: A Tiny Whispering Sound Chapter 5: The Missing Piece Chapter 6: Word Games and Mind Traps Chapter 7: The Family Hearth Chapter 8: Toward a Human Ecology Chapter 9: Darwin or Darwin-ism Chapter 10: Oppenheimer and the Fireball Chapter 11: The Radiance of Fifty Thousand Suns Endnotes Bibliography