<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/professor-s-book-examines-government-s-communities-of-strangers.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>04/19/2023</pubDate><title>Professor's Book Examines Government's 'Communities of Strangers'</title><description>For more than two decades, Dean Hammer lectured and wrote about democracies in ancient Rome and Greece, but now he tackles American democracy in comparison to Rome. Professor Dean Hammer's book</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/222140885974992498-14-12-18-dean-hammer-mh-7.0.58.1800.1084.full.jpg" alt="Hammer says of his books theme, There is a lingering question that underlies a community of strangers: If everyone can potentially be us, then who are we?"/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Academics</tag><tag>Government</tag></tags></item>