mecca, and so on friday prayers, the streets of central london, this street, is filled with monday limits with muslims looking toward mecca and praying, and you can argue that eades the gayity of life in a multicultural society and you can argue it s a huge blessing, or you can do as i do and argue it puts a big questionmark over those societies. i think it s ridiculous to pretends nothing is going to change. if you look at austria, for example, by mid-century, it s predicted that a majority of austrians under the age of 30 will be muslim. that s what the vienna demographic institute predicted. this is a country that most americans don t think about. if you say austria, they think about julie andrews singing, how do you solve a problem like maria pat was 1928. now it s how do you solve a problem like sharia. host: you also note in america alone that the birth of one of the most popular boy s names in europe is mohammed. guest: yes. people say, that s just because it
terrifying in some ways. i can remember once he was i think in bangkok rushing between planes and dictating to ashley who was with him on that trip and autumn burlington gets deutsch marks for helping shepherd those and to print. in any event i did a piece when richard died, and i used the phrase something to the effect he was not an ugly american. he wasn t a quiet american. and she said ah-ha and took that and made it into the unquiet american. i would credit strobe with the unquiet american, and with ab bow to bob green because we did flat the green title on its head. yes? elliott jones. will you tell the trampoline story? [laughter] also, do you think that mr. holbrooke could in any way have had an interest in turning his perspective to the economic problem that is going on on diplomacy or would he be totally uninterested in the whole business? he wouldn t be an interested but he would be glad there are other people more interested than he. [laughter] there was noth
.. an elusive title he thought was for losers and guarantee we sold in 2008800 copies, he thought that was thought america alone was a hit title, and he proved right on that. host: what was your original title? guest: i m keeping that to when i m in a multibillionaire and i can afford to indulge myself by writing books with oblique titles that sell 204,000 copies. host: what is the book about? guest: the book is my original title was on the same theme as america alone turned into. which is civilizational collapse, which is my shtick, my niche, and what hair didid is he getsow to focus on your selling point, and he says all this tap-dancing around the issue in the first 50 pages is a waste of time. get rid of that. and that s the book. and he was right on that. host: you write in america alone, the end of the world as we know it : it s hard to deliver a wakeup call for a civilization so determined to smother the alarm clock in the soft fluffy pillow of multicu
politics and pasta, how i prosecuted mobsters, rebuilt a dying city, dined with sinatra, spent five years in a federally-funded gated community and lived to tell the tale. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to present mayor vincent buddy cianci. [applause] mr. mayor. thank you, andrea. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] thank you all very much for coming. andrea, i ve been you left an awful lot out in that introduction, i ll tell you. [laughter] okay, thank you. i ve actually been introduced many different ways. the thing about introductions, i remember being introduced one time. you know, i used to be mayor, and i stopped being mayor, and then i became mayor again, to be euphemistic about all of that. in 1990 i got reelected, and i ll never forget, before the inauguration but after the election, i was invite today go to a dinner, a lot of people were there. and i ll never forget walking in, and the person at the podium was excited to see
time when i was mayor and i got a call from the white house. it was 1981 right after president reagan had one, and the call was about mr. william casey, bill casey was the head of the cia and they said he was coming to brown university and they wanted to know if i could pick him up at the airport. with the dean from brown, and if i could escort him through the city to do his speaking in and then driving back to the airport. so i said yeah mike i would do that. i knew who he was but i had never met him before, so i dutifully got in the car. we still have those big, long undertaking cars, you know those big long once? they look like they were from manmohan s funeral home. i picked up and dutifully went to the airport. we put the car on the tarmac and we did that at about 10 minutes later the key plane came in and it was a white thing with no numbers on it, typical cia. the plane landed and speaking about introductions, the gate came down and the steps came down and this guy had