The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In this lively and perceptive book, the first to examine Caesar's place in modern American culture, Maria Wyke investigates how his use has intensified in periods of political crisis, when the occurrence of assassination, war, dictatorship, totalitarianism or empire appears to give him fresh relevance. Her fascinating discussion shows how—from the Latin classroom to the Shakespearean stage, from cinema, television and the comic book to the internet—Caesar is mobilized in the U.S. as a resource for acculturation into the American present, as a prediction of America’s future, or as a mode of commercial profit and great entertainment.

The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In this lively and perceptive book, the first to examine Caesar's place in modern American culture, Maria Wyke investigates how his use has intensified in periods of political crisis, when the occurrence of assassination, war, dictatorship, totalitarianism or empire appears to give him fresh relevance. Her fascinating discussion shows how—from the Latin classroom to the Shakespearean stage, from cinema, television and the comic book to the internet—Caesar is mobilized in the U.S. as a resource for acculturation into the American present, as a prediction of America’s future, or as a mode of commercial profit and great entertainment.

This is Volume 2 of a two volume set. Please order both volumes for a complete set. America is no longer the land of the free. In Senate Report 93-549, the United States Congress admitted that, since at least 9 March 1933, the American people have lived under a state of national emergency. Instead of a federal Government of delegated and limited powers, what now operates from Washington, D.C. is a centralized military despotism which claims ultimate sovereignty over its citizens and rules them by statute in all cases whatsoever. Beginning with the usurpations of Abraham Lincoln, this book explains how the so-called emergency powers of the President of the United States developed over a period of seven decades and finally culminated in the virtual supplanting of the Constitution by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal democracy. The author draws heavily from a wealth of rare political literature from the past two centuries, as well as long-forgotten Government documents to paint an unsettling picture of American history and to show why nothing ever seems to change in Washington, no matter which political party is currently in power.

This book explores the significance of Julius Caesar to differentperiods, societies and people from the 50s BC through to thetwenty-first century. This interdisciplinary volume explores the significance ofJulius Caesar to different periods, societies and people. Ranges over the fields of religious, military, and politicalhistory, archaeology, architecture and urban planning, the visualarts, and literary, film, theatre and cultural studies. Examines representations of Caesar in Italy, France, Germany,Britain, and the United States in particular. Objects of analysis range from Caesar’s own commentarieson the Gallic wars, through Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, andimages of Caesar in Italian fascist popular culture, tocontemporary cinema and current debates about Americanempire. Edited by a leading expert on the reception of ancientRome. Includes original contributions by international experts onCaesar and his reception.

After many years of fighting the war on terror, Delta Force Major Patrick Kindayr must choose between creeping disillusionment and an incredible offer to run for president of the United States. He wavers, until the shock assassination of the senator tipped to become the first female president convinces him that he must save a corrupted nation, and a world heading for disaster-even if this requires a pact with the devil. He explodes onto a campaign trail that pits him against a line-up of candidates that bodes as ill for the future as the policies of an incompetent president. Kindayr must also outmaneuver key segments of corporate America, epitomized by ruthless energy czar Stu Vanderman. In this battle Kindayr becomes the willing instrument of California's powerful Governor Henderson, who must control the White House if he is to break the stranglehold of Big Oil and avert catastrophic climate change. The unsuspecting Vanderman, who stops at nothing to squeeze the last barrels of crude from the frozen Arctic to the steamy jungle, realizes too late his fateful miscalculation of trusting the wily governor. And too late does the governor realize that in Kindayr he unleashed a force he never bargained for. From the primaries to the final candidate debates Kindayr manages not only to outwit a lethal South African ex-commando, but to stay ahead of a CIA officer and his shady associates wary of his friendship with Russia's new president. When Kindayr's predictions come true and a collapsing stock market begins to shatter the economy, the rising wave of his popularity makes the unthinkable come true. Against all odds he wins the White House-but turns his inauguration into a coup that will change the world.