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Cato comes to us mostly by way of idealizing or caricature. Drogula, in this vividly written and wellinformed biography, aims at recovering the fleshandbone Cato and his complicated personality. Here was a man who, as Drogula shows us, looked to the past in fashioning his deeply influential reputation for traditional virtue and yet was instrumental in the events which led to the collapse of the Republic, whose values he claimed to embody. His story is anything but simple, and Drogula tells it well. * W. Jeffrey Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington * This is the alarming story of how one infuriating, rude, intractable man-admired by many, thought mad by more-could, nearly singlehandedly, bring down a free republic that for nearly half a millennium had overcome all perils from within and without. An appallingly timely book, and not for the timid reader. * Jon E. Lendon, University of Virginia * a caustic and decidedly modern rejoinder to Plutarch's martyr. * Brendan Boyle, Wall Street Journal *

Cato comes to us mostly by way of idealizing or caricature. Drogula, in this vividly written and wellinformed biography, aims at recovering the fleshandbone Cato and his complicated personality. Here was a man who, as Drogula shows us, looked to the past in fashioning his deeply influential reputation for traditional virtue and yet was instrumental in the events which led to the collapse of the Republic, whose values he claimed to embody. His story is anything but simple, and Drogula tells it well. * W. Jeffrey Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington * This is the alarming story of how one infuriating, rude, intractable man-admired by many, thought mad by more-could, nearly singlehandedly, bring down a free republic that for nearly half a millennium had overcome all perils from within and without. An appallingly timely book, and not for the timid reader. * Jon E. Lendon, University of Virginia *

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Fred K. Drogula is the Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Professor of Classics at Ohio University.

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