Cullen Murphy: "Are We Rome?" (Houghton Mifflin)

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Cullen Murphy: "Are We Rome?" (Houghton Mifflin)

As the world's sole superpower, it's easy to draw parallels between the United States and the Roman Empire. A look at what the U.S. has, and doesn't have, in common with the Ancient Roman Republic.

As the world's sole superpower, it's easy to draw parallels between the United States and the Roman Empire. A look at what the U.S. has, and doesn't have, in common with the Ancient Roman Republic.

Guests

Cullen Murphy

editor-at-large of "Vanity Fair" and author of "The World According to Eve" and co-author of "Rubbish."

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