Reddit reviews The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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This may scratch your itch: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1610397215/ref=nodl_
Here's the book
The Storm Before The Storm was ok https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1610397215
There’s a lot of good original sources, but if you want an easy read that focuses on this period, I recommend The Storm Before The Storm, by Mike Duncan. It talks about the late Roman Republican period, from the Gracchi brothers through Sulla. This is the generations just before Pompey and Julius Caesar - the people who essentially created the conditions that allowed Caesar to do what he did. It even has a forward that talks about parallels to today (Duncan was finishing the book during and just after the 2016 election).
If Duncan’s name is familiar, it’s because he is the creator of the History of Rome podcast, which is an awesome (and quite long) summarization of Roman history and culture from the founding through Constantine. I loved it and heartily recommend it to anyone who likes history and podcasts.
Well I am not sure if it would count as pop history or not but The Storm Before The Storm it highlights a very under-covered part of Roman history. Not the fall of the Republic, but the event and the people that led up to it's collapse. It's written by the creator of the history Rome podcast and is both well researched but is written in a very consumable way.
This is fantastic. He has written one book about Rome as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1610397215
The audio quality at the beginning of THoR is meh, but he really gets that down, as well as his presentation by about 8 episodes in.
His Revolutions podcast is superb as well, but not at all about Rome.
The Storm Before The Storm by Mike Duncan
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https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1610397215
It's to help pump me up for Imperator which releases on Steam in a couple of hours.
It a metaphor comparing *America* to the late Roman Republic. You can read the details here: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic/dp/1610397215
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
I know I'm in someone else's space right now, but I'm gonna make a recommendation. If you follow the Revolutions podcast or the History of Rome podcast, the man who did both of those just finished writing a book on exactly this topic.
Mike Duncan is a great historian, his stuff is always well researched, and his opinion is always heavily flagged as opinion not historical fact. I heartily suggest that you get yourself a copy of his book, The Storm Before the Storm: the Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic.
It's literally exactly what you're looking for.
He wrote a book about the beginnings of the fall of the Republic. Haven't read it myself, but I've heard good things.
Now, I have listened to the podcast, and I enjoyed it.
> Shortly afterward, the Roman Republic ended.
Mike Duncan of the History of Rome podcast fame wrote a history of the two generations before Caesar. The history of Rome was filled with class warfare and the fall of the Republic happened many times in its history.
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If we're comparing ourselves to the Roman Empire timeline than we're probably somewhere near the fall of the Republic which could be attributed to the reasons you mentioned. But the golden age of the Empire lasted a good 200 years after that, so we still have a good time ahead of us.
The guy who did The History of Rome podcast wrote a book about this very period in the Empire just before the fall of the Republic.