Book · 117 · Nonfiction
The Annals
Modern Library (Penguin Random House) · 596 pages
★ 7.6 editorial score
Tacitus promises to write without anger or partiality, then follows Rome from Augustus through Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, ruining each of them in half a sentence. Power has never had a colder witness.
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