Description
Book SynopsisAncient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America's understanding of itself and its history.
Trade Review"Malamud’s analysis provides a key to understanding why the US party system aligns itself with certain issues. To be read by all Americans, as history or a warning. [It is] not just another United States as New Rome, but [has] clear, meaningful comparisons. [It] clarifies our current political trajectory." (
About.com (Ancient History Guide), November 2008)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
1 Exemplary Romans in the Early Republic 9
2 Working Men’s Heroes 34
3 Rome and the Politics of Slavery 70
4 Corporate Caesars and Radical Reformers 98
5 Manifest Virtue 122
6 The Pleasures of Empire 150
7 Screening Rome During the Great Depression 186
8 Cold War Romans 208
9 Imperial Consumption 229
Epilogue 253
Bibliography 261
Filmography 279
Index 280
