Empires of Trust: How Rome Built--and America Is Building--a New World(ISBN=9780452295452)

　　An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history
　　Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an optimistic view of our nation's future.
　　Madden shows that the power of the ancient Roman republic and the U.S. was built on trust between allies, not the conquest of enemies. The far-reaching implications of this fact are essential reading for anyone who cares about the challenges we face now and in the years ahead.
　　Packed with stories from Roman history that offer amazingly obvious and explicitly stated parallels to our recent history, Empires of Trust is a narrative pleasure and a hopeful inspiration.

　　Thomas F. Madden is a professor of history at Saint Louis University. His previous books include The New Concise History of the Crusades and Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and on A&E television, the History Channel, PBS, and National Public Radio.