How to Be a Bad Emperor [electronic resource] : An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
Suetonius2020
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If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to
leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000
years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars , perhaps the greatest negative
leadership book of all time. He was ideally suited to write about terrible
political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and
Words of Insult , both sadly lost. In How to Be a Bad Emperor , Josiah Osgood
provides crisp new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic
biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero.
Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show
how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing almost incalculable
damage.
How to Be a Bad Emperor is both a gleeful romp through some of the nastiest bits
of Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone monstrously awry.
We meet Caesar, using his aunt's f...
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Author:
Suetonius, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HighBridge Audio, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (67 MB, 02:26:28 H)
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Narrator: P.J. Ochlan
Audience:
Adult
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Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781696600187
Language:
English
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BRN:
527953
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