A Pillar of Iron Free

Author: Taylor Caldwell
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00CEINOCW

A Pillar of Iron

A well-researched novel about statesman, lawyer, politician, and one of Rome's greatest orators, Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Cicero lived during the tumultuous period of the civil war outbreaks of the Roman republic, and, although he tried vainly to save the country he loved from the forces of tyranny, he eventually became an enemy of the state and was brutally executed.

Taylor Caldwell spent several years collecting notes, reading books, translating speeches, visiting Rome, and scrutinizing letters in order to portray Cicero not just as "a shining marble image," but as a son, brother, husband, father, friend, philosopher, and poet. The story begins with great promise, humor and insight, but is quickly infused with the author's extreme

A Pillar of Iron

Cicero lived during the tumultuous period of the civil war outbreaks of the Roman republic, and, although he tried vainly to save the country he loved from the forces of tyranny, he eventually became an enemy of the state and was brutally executed
The story begins with great promise, humor and insight, but is quickly infused with the author's extreme

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