Probably I should have posted this review sooner. I received the book, read it, did not like it, and wasn't sure where to begin.

The author appears to feel that women should not have equal civil rights, equal pay for equal work, and other basic human rights. Well, obviously, as a woman, I think irrational males who feel that way need to be helped, but their treatment should not include being allowed to publish books.,(What can help them? Maybe lots and lots and lots of bathroom scrubbing.)

Then, although nobody's ever called Donald Trump a feminist, left-wing political bias allows this poor messed-up male to lump Trump into the feminist movement as both reflecting "lovelessness," somehow. It doesn't have to make sense. This book is an expression of deep confusion, already.

Then there's a recurring motif of how this is affecting electronic "dating services." Well, duh. Women figured out some time ago that most of the men using "dating services" were neither interested in nor eligible for actual dating, and went back to dating only men who took the initiative to meet us in real life. If men used dating services to publicize the fact that they were looking for a chance to demonstrate how responsible and reliable they are, while finding out whether anyone they meet through a long series of social dates (for which they show up precisely on time) will turn out to be a real friend and partner for life, and then and only then will they dare to show their feelings with a request to kiss her hand...we'd be on the Lost Planet of Nice, obviously. At least the men we meet in the dog park or the grocery store usually try to act like human beings for a few weeks before they start wanting to start unwanted babies.

The author seems to imagine that the human population of Earth can continue expanding. If that were his only problem, a few years in any city where people think they want to live would solve it.

In order for men to avoid involuntary celibacy, he says, older, richer women would need to marry young, penniless, desperate men. This seldom happens; what most women feel about younger men is too motherly. It does not seem to occur to him that young women who are reasonably well off, attractive, with good prospects, might feel less motherly about their male classmates if their male classmates acted more like the men these women admire. Today's young women can and do reasonably want men who can fight fires, change diapers, and pass exams right beside them. They don't walk through life on their knees to help guys feel taller. They expect guys to stretch up to their level and become men. It's a form of natural selection. The men whom nature intended not to spend their lives complaining of their involuntary celibacy will mature and find mates, as always. Some men may just need to accept that, as the density of the human population increases, nature may select density of the skull out of the population.

Who should read tihis book? Someone who is absolutely determined to read all sides. The number of people who accepted free review copies on a review site says a lot. What more need be said? This: I read it in memory of my father, who bought books by people like Immanuel Velikovsky for his children's birthday presents, claimed Sheldon Emry as a friend, and once owned two copies of "The Hollow Earth." I respect "the patriarchy" of a genuine, legitimate patriarch enough to uphold the right of wrongheaded books to exist.

Who should buy this book? I don't know. Definitely not anyone in the group I collectively call The Nephews. I usually recommend that they read minority viewpoints, but when a writer is wrong on all five of the points he makes, it's hard to recommend the book as for any purpose but uncharitable laughs. ( )

As an Australian, I have watched in horror and disbelief as the USA embraced Trump in 2016, and despaired watching the cries of stolen elections. The culmination of the attack on the Capitol in 2021 made me think that America was embarking on a second civil war. In the past, I've read a number of books that agree that Trump is the product of the polarisation that has gripped US politics over the last decade. Noel Terry has given this a new slant by looking at gender relations, and the 1950's view of families, and specifically the gender roles that some believe each should have. It reads well, but is disturbing in it's implications for America. I can only hope that the Trump years are viewed by history as a minor aberration of the American psyche. ( )

This is a left-wing Trump history with a slant looking towards declining love, birthrates, and relationships. Make no mistake, this is a liberal eco-box book. This will convert no conservatives, and no scholarly moderates either.

Our author writes passionately, biased, and with a talented pen. A firehose pumping words forming sentences that often would make no sense out of context. It works, making the book a fast read. The citations are perhaps too weak and the conclusions too untested to call this a particularly good non-fiction, but if you are already mad as hell at the NAZI-ness of American conservatives, this will make you madder. ( )

Five stars: At this time of fragile democracy with voting and constitutional rights under threat while radical candidates with QAnon and Trumpism links lurch towards autocracy, Noel Terry’s insightful America’s Loveless Age delivers this salient message: “vote like hell, otherwise you won’t have a democracy anymore.” The book reflects that it has gone beyond right and left, Republican and Democrat, right and wrong – this is about matters of morality and ethics that reverberates all the way back to the humble dating app. Not only does the author dissect Trumpism and the divisive cultural war politics currently raging writ large in America today, but also how it all impacts the romantic side of life. In that regard, this is a unique book.
If you ever wanted to know why more than half of white women voted twice for an “odious poster-boy of machismo”, Terry unravels the inconvenient truth. That Trump failed to save the patriarchy is underscored by a surprising twist at the end in which ‘odious poster-boy’ is neutered by ‘game-changer poster-girl’ (FemPower). The book flirts with the idea that as more women become primary breadwinners in a post-industrial economy more congenial to their skills, the more households vote Democrat. Not only does this promise to scorch Trumpism’s autocratic ambitions, but it also alleviates the loveless age. Terry shows this is achieved by a new mating politics emerging from the chaos of the Trump presidency.
I recommend this book, not only for its entertaining and well-researched detail, but also for its informed political outlook that should alarm ALL Americans. And it could just save your love life! ( )