Praise for The Assassination of Julius Caesar:

"Parenti . . . re-creates the struggle of the late Republic with scintillating storytelling and deeply examined historical insight."-Publishers Weekly

One of America's most astute and engaging political analysts, Michael Parenti shows us that culture is a changing process and the product of a dynamic interplay between a wide range of social and political interests. It is not enough to study the prevailing political realm; we also must grasp developments throughout the entire civil society. In short, to understand a society we need to understand the problem of cultureas well as that of power.

Drawing from cultures around the world, Parenti shows that beliefs and practices are readily subjected to political manipulation, and that many parts of culture are being commodified, separated from their group or communal origins, and packaged and sold to those who can pay for them. Folk culture is giving way to a corporate market culture. Art, science, medicine, and psychiatry can be used as instruments of cultural control, and even marriage, the "foundation of society,"has been misused by heterosexuals across the centuries.

Using vivid examples and riveting arguments throughout, The Culture Struggleranges from the everyday to the esoteric. Richly informed, penned with eloquence and irony, The Culture Strugglepresents a collection of snapshots of our time that help us understand the world we live in.

Michael Parentiis a critically acclaimed author and an extraordinary public speaker. He received his PhD in political science from Yale University and has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. He is the author of 18 books, including Superpariotism, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, and Inventing Reality.

Radical leftist public intellectual Parenti offers a series of commentaries loosely connected by their concern with the role of culture--"the entire panorama of conventional beliefs and practices within any society"--in social and political life. Topics include the mass-marketing of culture, psychiatry as a tool of social control, global attitudes towards woman, myths about the institution of marriage, and objectivity as a mask for the dominant bias. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

One of America's most astute and engaging political analysts turns his attention to how culture is perceived. Richly informed and well written with style and dashes of ironic humor, this is a buffet of ideas that explain the world.

Michael Parenti is a critically acclaimed author and an extraordinary public speaker. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He is the author of eighteen books, including Superpariotism, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, and Inventing Reality.