One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "Students at every level will find this brilliant, lucid, carefully organized synthesis of innovative work on the Late Republic to be an invaluable resource."
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Benjamin Kelly, Phoenix "For specialists, much of the ground covered will be familiar, although the ... Read moreauthor's judgments are often shrewd and his power to summarize wide-ranging and often complex issues is nothing short of magisterial. For nonspecialists, Holkeskamp's tour d'horizon delivers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the current state of play in the study of Republican political culture... [A] brief summation cannot do justice to Holkeskamp's nuanced and wide-ranging survey. The notes and bibliography alone are worth the price of the volume."
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