Suggests that the power of the American presidency has increased over the last fifty years, threatening the the constitutional balance of the three branches, a situation that the author feels must be remedied.
The parallels existing between the ancient fall of the Roman Empire and America of the 21st Century are astounding.
This is Volume 2 of a two volume set.
Who Owns the U.S.? is the clearest summary yet of Vidal's political views. The book is shot through with the coruscating wit that has made him one of America's most...
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In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy.
... 158-160, 165-166, 176-179; text of, with amendments, 181-204 Utopia, 59-60 Van Devanter, Willis, 100 Vassar College, 150 Wallace, Henry A., 65, 71, 72, 91, 143 Washington, George, 33, 174, 177 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 70 Wilson, ...
Henry Waxman (CA), Hon. Peter Welch (VT), Hon. Robert Wexler (FL) Communist Party USA boss John Bachtell boasted that his Marxist-Leninist organization, a tentacle of the Soviet regime in America for decades, “utilizes” the increasingly ...
. . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows
A long-awaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Latin American literature and society.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.