{"product_id":"lawless-republic-josiah-osgood-9781399811576","title":"Lawless Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by crime. Cases of extortion, murder and insurrection gave an ambitious young lawyer named Cicero high-profile opportunities to litigate and forge a reputation as a master debater with a bright political future. In Lawless Republic, leading Roman historian Josiah Osgood recounts the legendary orator's ascent and fall, and his pivotal role in the republic's lurch toward autocracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCicero's first appearance in the courts came shortly after the end of a brutal civil war. After leveraging his fame as a lawyer to become a consul, he ruthlessly crushed a coup by suppressing the liberties of Roman citizens. The premiere legal mind of Rome came to argue that the pursuit of a higher justice could sometimes justify sweeping the law aside, laying the groundwork for Roman history's most famous act of political violence - the assassination of Julius Caesar.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLawless Republic vividly resurrects the spectacle of the courts in the time of Cicero and Caesar, showing how politics trumped the rule of law and sealed the fate of Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Josiah Osgood","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49231209922803,"sku":"9781399811576","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781399811576.jpg?v=1781034876","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/lawless-republic-josiah-osgood-9781399811576","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}