‘Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clearness and confidence of the voice pro with this friendly warning targeted at America’s parents, teachers, and regulating officials.’ – AudioFile Publication

AN INSTANT NY Occasions BESTSELLER – read by the author.

In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country’s youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the country about the existential risk to America’s future.

Raised by well-meaning about The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis–and How exactly to Restore a Culture of Self-Reliance but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government courses, America’s youth are ill-equipped to endure in our highly-competitive global economy.

Lots of the coming-of-age rituals which have defined the American encounter since the Founding: learning the worthiness of working with the hands, leaving house to start a family group, becoming economically self-reliant-are getting delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of university students drop out after the first year, in support of 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents.

From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of the Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat towards the American way of life.

In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the sources of a generation that can’t grow up and offers a path for increasing children to be active and involved citizens. He identifies core formative encounters that all teenagers should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and need, the energy of reading, the importance of nurturing your body-and clarifies how parents can encourage them.

Our democracy depends on accountable, contributing adults to function properly-without them America falls victim to populist demagogues. A contact to hands, The Vanishing American Adult will ignite a much-needed issue about the link between the method we’re raising our kids and the continuing future of our country.