Lessons from a Lost Republic: What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us about This American Moment
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Book Overview "Urgent and necessary . . . Berenfeld brings a historian's eye to this thrilling, sobering tale, and a citizen's voice to its lessons for...
"Urgent and necessary . . . Berenfeld brings a historian's eye to this thrilling, sobering tale, and a citizen's voice to its lessons for our own moment."--Ayad Akhtar, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A lively pocket history of the Roman Republic's collapse--and its unsettling echoes in our own political moment.
Americans are obsessed with Rome. Billionaires and manosphere pundits wax on about its military might, its gladiators, its emperors, its greatness.
But we're telling ourselves the wrong story.
In this sharp, eye-opening account, classics professor Michelle Berenfeld redirects our gaze. The Roman Empire isn't the lesson--the Roman Republic is. Nearly five centuries of representative government, undone by forces that should sound familiar: wealth and power concentrated in the hands of elites, rampant political violence, endless expansionist wars, and a Senate that normalized emergency measures until it had nothing left to protect. One by one, aspiring strongmen seized what the Senate had surrendered, stretching the limits of their legal power, using the military against their own people, undermining elections, and killing their enemies--until one of them, Augustus, gained total control and became an emperor.
Berenfeld's argument is both clarifying and urgent: Rome's slide into autocracy was not inevitable--and neither is ours. Smart, spirited, and packed with revelatory detail, Lessons from a Lost Republic is a wake-up call two thousand years in the making, a reminder that the republic is ours to protect.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: SPIEGEL & GRAU LLC | ISBN: 1966302215
FormatHardcover
ISBN1966302215
EAN9781966302216
PublisherSPIEGEL & GRAU LLC
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight0.75 Pounds
Length8.3 Inches
Width5.5 Inches
Height1.1 Inches
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