![]() ![]() In a rarity for this kind of book, it is amply sourced on both sides of the aisle. The book reconstructs key events of 20 in painstaking detail while capturing the thinking of major political leaders as they dealt with the pandemic and the attack on the Capitol. Yet for those budding classicists who find this unsatisfying and are desperate to try to capture the internal calculations and compromises of politicians at a time when traditional institutions are under siege, they would do well to consult This Will Not Pass, by the New York Times’ Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, historians of the ancient world have to rely on a handful of written sources preserved through the centuries by happenstance, the simple luck of archeological conjecture, and what can be determined through artifacts and fragments. After all, Julius Caesar did not livetweet the crossing of the Rubicon, and the Gracchi did not rouse the Roman plebeians through viral videos. There are relatively few sources for the last time a centuries-old republic decayed into autocracy. Photo-Illustration: Konstantin Sergeyev/Intelligencer. ![]()
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