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...inflation, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg dramatically presented him with a 100,000,000,000-mark note which he explained was now worth 2½?. To shame gold-greedy Republicans, Louisiana's Long dipped into Roman history and plucked out as a horrible example Triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 B. C.). According to Senator Long, opulent Crassus, after bleeding the citizenry of Rome of all its gold, was put to death by having the molten metal poured down his throat...
...recreating for us fifth century Athens, nevertheless, the reader is sure to carry away a fairly substantial picture of the life at Rome in the height of its greatness. Inevitably other great characters of history figure to a more or less extent in this account; men such as Caesar, Crassus, Octavius, Mark Antony, Brutus, Cassius are all seen in their relation to Cicero and his times. Of course Cicero's life is the central theme of the book, and is shown throughout its development...