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State of Emergency (book)

book by Pat Buchanan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ7603739 ↗
Source-derived summary

State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America is a 2006 book by American conservative Patrick Buchanan, in which the author criticizes the large number of illegal immigrants entering the United States, alleging that the influx constitutes a crisis with profound cultural, political, and economic impact on the country.

The book also contains a chapter called "Eurabia", which states that "Islamization of Europe is an unavoidable consequence, indeed, an inevitability, once Europe ceased to reproduce itself."

Publication history

Thomas Dunne Books (US), hardcover, 2006, ISBN 0-312-36003-7

St. Martin's Griffin (US), paperback, 2007, ISBN 0-312-37436-4

References

External links

State of Emergency online ebook.

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“State of Emergency (book)” enters the record as book by Pat Buchanan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what State, Emergency and book can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around State, Emergency and book.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7603739. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “State of Emergency (book)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.