Brutus - Caesar's Assassin, Kirsty Corrigan.
A well balanced biography of Brutus, one of the more consistent
defenders of the Roman Republic, and famously one of Caesar's assassins
on the Ides of March. Paints a picture of a man of generally high
moral standards (with some flaws in financial matters), but also an
over-optimistic plotter, who failed to make any realistic plans for the
aftermath of the assassination. Does a good job of tracing Brutus's
fairly obscure early years, as well as distinguishing between later
legends and historically likely events
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