{"product_id":"young-master-the-republic-book-i-1470091054","title":"Young Master: The Republic, Book I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1470091054\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Warren, David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduct Description In 155 BC, Servius Fulvius Flaccus is handed a big farm near Salernum and travels south from Rome to manage it. Servius knows he is inexperienced. Although Servius is 23 years old and a veteran of a campaign against the Gauls, his father has kept him from taking any independent action. He understands that he must learn his job while maintaining a mask of authority and decisiveness. From the first day, he uncovers surprises - most of them bad. Most unexpectedly, a slave insurrection reaches Serviuss farm just after his arrival. Fighting the renegades introduces Servius to Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus. Scipio is the headman of a dominant political faction in Rome: famous, competent, and quirky. Servius decides that his connection with Scipio is as lucky as the slave revolt was unlucky. Servius knows about politics. He is already working to further his march through the offices that ratify importance in Rome. Scipios influence is something he can use. But Scipio is not Serviuss only political asset. Servius is also a favorite of Marcus Porcius Cato, the former Censor, and probably the most famous man of his era. Of course, Cato is extremely old and he cannot live forever. But he has agreed to visit Serviuss farm and give him some advice - including political advice. When Cato arrives he brings startling news. After almost fifty years or Roman rule, natives of the Iberian Peninsula are mutinous. Cato advises Servius to prepare for a lifetime trying to pacify Hispania. He also enlists Servius in a campaign that will reform the processes that have placed venal governors over the Hispanic provinces. Young Master is a story of incipient transformations: detailing the pace and currents of everyday life during the Roman Republic, dramatizing the normal expectations of men who run things, and tracing the roots of crises that will fracture the consensus which is the bedrock of Romes safety, stability, and wealth. Readers of novels about Romes eventual transformation into an autocracy, such as those by Robert Harris, Colleen McCullough, and Steven Saylor, may also enjoy the back story behind the events in those books. Review This is . . . .arguably one of the most realistic books on what happened really in Rome. . . . .This book is set up like the first book of a series, with a cliffhanger at the end. If Warren delivers on that promise, this could make for a fine series.- San Francisco \/ Sacramento \/ Portland Book Review -The politics of the Roman senate are complex and vicious. \"Young Master\" is a novel of three individuals in different states of the Roman Empire's government where three individuals with their own ideas on how best serve Rome, and how the weight of their duty may crush them quickly as they enter big stakes between factions. \"Young Master\" is a riveting read for those who love the Roman setting, recommended.Midwest Book Review, Reviewers' Bookwatch October 2012 Margaret LaneReviewer From the Back Cover ROME, AT THE TRIUMPHANT HEIGHT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the year (155 BC) when Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica and Marcus Claudius Marcellus are both Consuls for the second time:MARCUS PORCIUS CATO THE CENSOR, throws himself into the final battles of his ferociously contentious half century of dominance among the senate and people of Rome.PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AEMILIANUS, brilliant star of a powerful clan, takes the first tentative steps along a famous political journey - victoriously facing a slave revolt in remote southern Italy, but trying to slide by perilous controversy in the capital city.SERVIUS FULVIUS FLACCUS, an inexperienced young aristocrat committed to running a crisis plagued estate, discovers that he may not be man enough to survive his first year as master, or realize his hopes during faction fights in the City. About the Author After roughly three decades as a faceless bureaucrat, David Warren retired to southern Oregon and now writ\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68048727212320,"sku":"NEW1470091054","price":12.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61IOEcTQVtL.jpg?v=1793275346","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/young-master-the-republic-book-i-1470091054","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}