The Fall of Public Man
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780393308792
First sentence: Modern times are often compared to the years the Roman Empire went into decline: Just as moral rottenness is supposed to have sapped Rome's power to rule the West, it is said to have sapped the modern West's power to rule the globe.