CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS by Theodore H. White. 174 pages. Afheneum. $5.
The Julius Caesar usually met with in histories and in Shakespeare's theater is up to his laurels in politics; but somehow one rarely thinks of him as a politician. His grubby preoccupation with the buying and selling of votes, the maneuvers of rival factionsthese tend to be obscured by poetry and rhetoric. Theodore White has chosen to treat Caesar mostly as a practitionerand ultimately a victimof politics. White has always been fascinated "by the way men use other men to reach their...
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