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Linden MacIntyre

Author, The Accidental Villain

I don’t want to sound erudite, but I’ve been fascinated by The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. I’ve been picking my way through that, looking for modern-day parallels. What I’m finding is that I should be reading about the fall of the Roman republic, looking back into that period of history when you had a political establishment that nobody would ever have anticipated would ever fail. And the British empire failed because of small uprisings within, because it no longer worked, was no longer useful.

Anyway, that’s what I’m reading, or maybe studying — I don’t want to sound like I’m sitting there reading the whole thing.

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