[Peace-discuss] has Congress become Useless?

[C. G. Estabrook]

  This was written in an America that was reading Arnold Toynbee (whom I also 
liked; among other things, he was the intermediate between Isaac Asimov and 
Marx) and so should be read as literature, rather than history.

The same may be true of Cullen Murphy, whose major claim to fame is that for 
many years he wrote the stories for the comic strip Prince Valiant.


On 8/9/10 12:30 PM, Ron Szoke wrote:
> The book referred to is _The Coming Caesars_, by Amaury de Riencourt
> (Coward-McCann, 1957, 384 pages)
>
> "It is the contention of this book that expanding democracy leads
> unintentionally to imperialism and that imperialism inevitably ends in
> destroying the republican institutions of earlier days;  further, that the
> greater the social equality, the dimmer the prospects of liberty, and that
> as society becomes more equalitarian, it tends increasingly to
> concentrate absolute power in the hands of one single man"  (p. 5).
>
> This might be compared with
> Cullen Murphy, _Are We Rome?_:  The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of
> America (2007).
>
> -- Ron