{"product_id":"lessons-from-a-lost-republic-9781966302223","title":"Lessons from a Lost Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively pocket history of the Roman Republic’s collapse—and its unsettling echoes in our own political moment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans are obsessed with Rome. Billionaires and manosphere pundits wax on about its military might, its gladiators, its emperors, its greatness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut we’re telling ourselves the wrong story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this sharp, eye-opening account, classics professor Michelle Berenfeld redirects our gaze. The Roman Empire isn’t the lesson—the Roman \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerenfeld’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, \u003ci\u003eLessons from a Lost Republic\u003c\/i\u003e is a wake-up call two thousand years in the making, a reminder that the republic is ours to protect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michelle Berenfeld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48266975609083,"sku":"9781966302223","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_68a17380-0c8f-43f2-a238-fbdee2af5ef0.jpg?v=1779499247","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/lessons-from-a-lost-republic-9781966302223","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}