What happened to the greatest empire the Western world has ever known? Historian Adrian Goldsworthy takes up his pen after his marvelously written biography of Caesar and takes up the epic history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire, telling the story with a novel’s ebb and flow, enough characters to make the eyes and the mind dance, and a few hints here and there about what Rome’s decline may – or may not – portend for our modern world.
Join West Lafayette Public Library Director Nick Schenkel as he reviews books from all walks of literature.
