Amaury de Riencourt - The Coming Caesars

AN INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAS DIRECTION IN LIGHT OF WORLD HISTORY

BY: AMAURY D E RIENCOURT

T HE C OMING C AESARS
by Amuary de Riencourt

All rights reserved. The De Riencourt family owns the rights to the interior content of this book and have donated it for re-publication. The original book was never copyrighted and the original publishers have been bought up through industry acquisitions. Penguin books would normally have copyright on this material as they own the content of Coward-Mann and its subsequent receivers. Their representatives sent us to the De Riencourt family as means of approval for this project.

Typeset & Cover Copyright 2013 by Trestle Press
Original book published by Coward-McCann, Inc, New York, 1957
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Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication data

De Riencourt, Amaury, 1918-2005.

The Coming Caesars / De Riencourt, Amaury, 1918-2005.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-938480-04-1

Includes bibliographical references.

1. World politics. 2. Caesarism. 3. United States -- History -- Philosophy. 4. United States
--Foreign relations. I. Title.

E175.9 .R53 2013

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This volume is printed on acid free paper and meets ANSI Z39.48 standards.

Cover design by: Artun Gokcen

Interior design by: Timothy L. Price

In 2006, I was given a copy of The Coming Caesars, written by a enigmatic French author: Amaury De Riencourt. As read it, I was stunned! This book spoke to me about the modern political scene in a way that made more sense than anything I ever heard or read before or since. Even though this 1957 book observed the presidency and presidents up to Eisenhower the authors thesis pointedly described what is happening with even greater intensity in our own day.

In reissuing this book, I have not updated its content other than adjustments in style and to trim out the end matters, so as to make it less bulky. I also added a subtitle and developed a telling cover. Otherwise this book is faithful to its original appearance.

As you read this book, and the authors insightful commentary on the presidents of his era and how his analysis correlated exactly with the worst aspects of totalitarianism in the Roman Empire, I encourage you to consider De Riencourts thesis with regard to each the presidencies since Eisenhower. See how modern presidents correlate to the authors thesis with greater examples of excesses than the author cites in past presidents, which substantiated his thesis. As I read this book my mind considered how it exposes Bill Clinton and George W. Bush for their expansion of the presidency in ways De Riencourt describes as Caesarism. De Riencourt wrote:

It (Caesarism)...is not dictatorship, not the result of one mans overriding ambition, not a brutal seizure of power through revolution. It is not based on a specific doctrine or philosophy. It is essentially pragmatic and untheoretical. It is a slow, often century-old, unconscious development that ends in a voluntary surrender of a free people escaping from freedom to one autocratic master... (From: pg. 5 in 1st edition Introduction, and pg. XI in this volume.)

Since my reading of this jaw-dropping book, and with Obamas ascendency to the stage of President, De Riencourts thesis continues to make more sense than ever. Its value and contemporary appeal seem to grow as each successive president assumes power.

Consider Bill Clintons hubristic style. He oversaw the set up for the annihilation of the housing sector of the economy through his mortgage deregulation (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), offering housing loans to millions of people who could not pay them back. He debased the presidency with his philandering and ridiculous military involvements. He was impeached but did not have the humility to accept it and leave office... George W. Bush followed, pushing the country politically to the middle covered up by appealing to Religious Conservatives through his Supreme Court appointments [Roberts and Alito] and to patriots with his War on Terror. He also presided over a different aspect of economic Armageddon with his insane spending. Bushs involvement in the Patriot Act, a coup dtat of sorts within itself; was another form of what De Riencourt meant by his term Caesarism. Bushs ultimate legacy however was paving the way to legitimize an Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama, the most caesaristic of all presidents to date; eclipsing FDR by far Obama doesnt lead. Instead, he incessantly campaigns: fostering class warfare and partisanism to conceal the advance of his increasingly destructive policies of economic unsustainability and cultural revolution. He is engaged in a war on America, as it has been understood by citizen and foreigner alike, in order to transform this country into a neo-socialist order and worse. Obama acts with impunity and succeeds amidst the lowest approval ratings for a president in modern history all with the help of a fawning media who fall over themselves to help facilitate and conceal his agenda.

Yes, yes, the issues and personalities all seem reasonable in their causes and in how theyve been explained. However, the real essence is that American citizens are less free, more tyrannized, and more susceptible to being totally dominated by a powerful Tribune (what amounts to a special interest genie for the masses) in the presidency than ever before. Today party doesnt matter; the national devolution is unmitigated. The alleged issues every day people line up behindbecause they believe in themare utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of the political arena. Issues only serve as dissonance to confuse the dupable into thinking they are actually accomplishing something; when in fact the stark reality is that issues are in reality simply a means to manipulate the masses in order to gain power: paraphrasing the words of Richard John Neuhaus.

The corollary between the Caesarism of Rome and the Presidency of United States of America is more spot-on today than when De Riencourt articulated his warning 56 years ago. It is unlikely that the trajectory in Americas politics will be stopped or moderated to any great degree... In any case, this book makes more sense of the realities of Americas direction than the narrative being bandied about by pundits, talk show hosts, or the talking heads of traditional media sources.

The highest numbers of people in America do not realize what is in reality happening. Citizens, voters [of both Left and Right affiliations] do not realize that the America theyve always believed in is not the reality of what America is and where it is going. By the time people wake up to this hidden reality, it will be too late: it will be irreversible. For a citizen, I feel this book will be enlightening, especially if modern readers take De Riencourts analysis and then reconsider history and events regarding the presidencies since 1957.

For the secularist, one who has no interest in God, this book should open their eyes as well. They need to see where things are going; how a powerful Tribune in the presidency and a corrupt party system, which actually no longer has opposite sides, is leading America to oblivion first and secondly serving as midwife to the birth of a ruling international order where America will be reduced to a state within a new global federation.