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In 1998, I was looking for a new subject, unable to get published after years of trying. I opened Christian Meier’s Caesar (1992) with no sense that it would change my life completely. It is a brilliant, readable tale of the politics and lives of early Rome. I could not have asked for a better introduction.Read about the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue