{"product_id":"lessons-from-a-lost-republic-what-ancient-rome-can-teach-us-about-this-american-moment-hardcover","title":"Lessons from a Lost Republic: What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us about This American Moment - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichelle Berenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle Berenfeld \u003c\/b\u003eis the John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. An archaeologist and fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she has done research in Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, and Italy. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous scholarly publications. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53878613213491,"sku":"9781966302216","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Ul1bonUTlN9781966302216.webp?v=1787199819","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/lessons-from-a-lost-republic-what-ancient-rome-can-teach-us-about-this-american-moment-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}