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Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--and America Is Building--a New World
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20th Century United States History21st Century United States HistoryAncient Rome
ISBN13: 9780452295452
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.34
Language: English
Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an optimistic view of our nation's future.
Madden shows that the power of the ancient Roman republic and the U.S. was built on trust between allies, not the conquest of enemies. The far-reaching implications of this fact are essential reading for anyone who cares about the challenges we face now and in the years ahead.
Packed with stories from Roman history that offer amazingly obvious and explicitly stated parallels to our recent history, Empires of Trust is a narrative pleasure and a hopeful inspiration.
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