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　　He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young

Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched

transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark

Antony and was master of the smear campaign, as feared for his wit

as he was for exposing his opponents? sexual peccadilloes.

Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but

also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome?s most feared

politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times.

Machiavelli, Queen Elizabeth, John Adams and Winston Churchill all

studied his example. No man has loomed larger in the political

history of mankind.

In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt

plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient

Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his

legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of

unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life

in these pages as a witty and cunning political operator.

Cicero leapt onto the public stage at twenty-six, came of age

during Spartacus? famous revolt of the gladiators and presided over

Roman law and politics for almost half a century. He foiled the

legendary Catiline conspiracy, advised Pompey, the victorious

general who brought the Middle East under Roman rule, and fought to

mobilize the Senate against Caesar. He witnessed the conquest of

Gaul, the civil war that followed and Caesar?s dictatorship and

assassination. Cicero was a legendary defender of freedom and a

model, later, to French and American revolutionaries who saw

themselves as following in his footsteps in their resistance to

tyranny.

Anthony Everitt?s biography paints a caustic picture of Roman

politics?where Senators were endlessly filibustering legislation,

walking out, rigging the calendar and exposing one another?s sexual

escapades, real or imagined, to discredit their opponents. This was

a time before slander and libel laws, and the stories?about dubious

pardons, campaign finance scandals, widespread corruption, buying

and rigging votes, wife-swapping, and so on?make the Lewinsky

affair and the U.S. Congress seem chaste.

Cicero was a wily political operator. As a lawyer, he knew no

equal. Boastful, often incapable of making up his mind, emotional

enough to wander through the woods weeping when his beloved

daughter died in childbirth, he emerges in these pages as intensely

human, yet he was also the most eloquent and astute witness to the

last days of Republican Rome.

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