French-American writer who wrote The Soul of China, Rome and the United States, and Sex and Power in History — developing civilizational comparisons and arguing that American civilization parallels Rome at the moment of its transformation from republic to empire.
Applies Spenglerian civilizational morphology to specific comparisons — particularly the Roman-American parallel — arguing that the same stages of civilizational development produce structurally identical outcomes in different cultures and periods.
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