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Title: The Last Chapter
Review: I enjoyed the book so much that I just had to reread it. The ancient Romans probably did not know their empire and culture were crumbling until it was too late. Americans seem just as blind. Many take the unrealistic view that "All will work out in the end". Berman has about the best final chapter I have ever seen with respect to similar books. Most books on the subject had their authors adding a final chapter with all sorts of pie-in-the-sky unworkable solutions. For example, things like we must elect better people to government; we must hold our politicians to their word and so on. Berman knowns better. He says that the best we can hope for is a slowing of the decline and he's right. A people that can't pull themselves away from things like "The Big Game", Paris Hilton and the rest are doomed to fail especially when there are other cultures that have their eyes on being number one.
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