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Robert Harris

Imperium

 
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Perhaps no one in ancient Rome was a better orator than Marcus Cicero, the statesman whose powerful rhetoric earned him great acclaim but which also eventually led to his assassination. Now novelist Robert Harris traces Cicero's rise to power, telling the story in the voice of Cicero's confidential secretary Tiro. Harris' novel is called "Imperium."
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