Empires of Trust
How Rome Built—and America Is Building—a New World

Americans are famously illiterate in their knowledge of history. This, of course, does not stop them from pontificating noisily about history, and drawing inapt parallels between contemporary events and their supposed historic analogues. The most popular in the last decade is probably "Bush = Hitler......more

Before this book, I had many uninformed notions on Rome based on the movies and TV shows that only served to expand my ignorance. This book changed all that. I am amazed at the similarities between the first several hundred years of Rome, when it was a republic, and the United States up to this poin......more

Wow. For twenty years, I've been fascinated by the Romans. I always knew that they were more like the Americans than anyone cared to admit, but I couldn't put my finger on what was so similar. I also always had the sneaking suspicion that the Romans were not the Assyrians, or the Babylonians, or even......more

As I have had an increasing interest in the classical world that don't have a background in, I had high expectations for a book that promised to give an introduction to the Roman world and draw useful parallels to our own. With some knowledge of Prof. Madden from his audio lectures, my expectations......more

A very interesting view of the similarities between the Roman Empire and the United States. I'd never really studied the Roman Empire, I just thought it sounded interesting and read it; I'm glad I did.......more