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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
By Edward J. WattsEdward J. Watts traces how the Roman Republic, stable for centuries, talked itself into autocracy by breaking its own political norms one at a time until violence felt ordinary. The clearest modern account of why a working republic chose a strongman, and the uncomfortable parallels it still raises.
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📄 352 pages⏱ ~3 hr read📅 2018
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Edward J. Watts traces how the Roman Republic, stable for centuries, talked itself into autocracy by breaking its own political norms one at a time until violence felt ordinary. The clearest modern account of why a working republic chose a strongman, and the uncomfortable parallels it still raises.
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