Harris does a wonderful job in this account of Cicero's rise through Rome's politics. We're with him every step of the way, from a youth who had yet to learn how to properly orate, through the peak of his political station. The tale comes from us from Tiro, a slave who served as Cicero's private secretary and fellow intriguer, as he reminisces as an old man of the turbulent times that were the last years of the republic. Recommended.