Listening to NPR this morning (A Second Consecutive Snow Day- More on that later)
About Citizens United and Republican efforts to remove campaign finance limitations.
I actually found a new book I was interested in at the Public Library, Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy (Yale, 2010), a complement to the more widely publicized/reviewed biography of Cleopatra. He is my favorite modern author working in the classics, I really enjoyed The Fall of Rome (2009) and his biography of Caesar.
He is treading familiar ground to him; It is the corrosive influence of unlimited campaign finance in the fall of the Roman Republic that he covers (again) (See Caesar). OK, I know the historical literacy standard is slipping in our society. In many ways it is just too depressing to think about.
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