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The Eagle's Throne
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The Eagle's ThroneThe Eagle's Throne

Carlos Fuentes, author of more than 20 books (including The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz), knows politics intimately: he served in various government positions in Mexico and as Mexico's ambassador to France in the mid-1970s. The Eagle's Throne, a brilliantly scathing satire on presidential succession, is among Fuentes's best work. Inspired by Machiavelli's The Prince and other texts, Fuentes personalizes power plays through letters in which characters scheme, betray, plot murders, reveal their sexual peccadilloes, and succumb to desperation.
 
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Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw
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Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard ShawCaesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw

Four years before Julius Caesar sailed to Rome to meet his untimely end, the great leader sought to conquer the outer reaches of the land, always questing for a kindred spirit to rival his own. What he finds, sitting on top of an ancient Egyptian Sphinx, is a young Queen Cleopatra, who beguiles him not only with her beauty, but because she may be the very match he's been seeking.
 
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Tags: Caesar, Cleopatra, political, personalizes, relationship, Caesar, Bernard, ancient, Egyptian, Cleopatra