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An Interesting Thing About Book Groups, It Seems To Me, Is That There Is No Correlation Between A Brilliant Book And A Brilliant Discussion. The First Seems Sometimes Even To Undermine The Second.

No One In The Modern World Controls The Wealth Or Territory That Cleopatra Did.

My Next Book Is On The Salem Witch Trials. As A Small-town Massachusetts Girl, This Makes Me Very Happy. So Does The Reunion With Documents!

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Here You Have An Incredibly Ambitious, Accomplished Woman Who Comes Up Against Some Of The Same Problems That Women In Power Come Up Against Today. Cleopatra Plays An Oddly Pivotal Role In World History As Well; In Her Lifetime, Alexandria Is The Center Of The Universe, Rome Is Still A Backwater.