Are We Rome? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Are We Rome? write by Cullen Murphy. This book was released on 2008-05-05. Are We Rome? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows
Are We Rome?
Are We Rome? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Are We Rome? write by Cullen Murphy. This book was released on 2007. Are We Rome? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling look at the unexpected ways America resembles ancient Rome and what we must do to avoid a catastrophic fall.
Are We Rome?
Are We Rome? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Are We Rome? write by Cullen Murphy. This book was released on 2008. Are We Rome? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Esteemed editor and author Murphy draws nuanced lessons for how America might avoid Rome's fate. In lively, richly detailed historical stories based on the latest scholarship, the ancient world leaps to life and casts the contemporary world in a provocative new light.
Why America Is Not a New Rome
Why America Is Not a New Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why America Is Not a New Rome write by Vaclav Smil. This book was released on 2010-01-29. Why America Is Not a New Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles. America's post–Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, comparisons are to the bloated, decadent, ineffectual later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of talk shows and glossy magazine articles. He finds profound differences. Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, focuses on several fundamental concerns: the very meaning of empire; the actual extent and nature of Roman and American power; the role of knowledge and innovation; and demographic and economic basics—population dynamics, illness, death, wealth, and misery. America is not a latter-day Rome, Smil finds, and we need to understand this in order to look ahead without the burden of counterproductive analogies. Superficial similarities do not imply long-term political, demographic, or economic outcomes identical to Rome's.
Rome
Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rome write by Greg Woolf. This book was released on 2012. Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major new history of the spectacular rise and fall of the ancient world's greatest empire
