Coolidge, Olivia E

Stating in her preface that the life of Churchill is the history of the first half of the twentieth century, the author views the great British statesman in relation to his times.

Ten short stories about everyday people of ancient Rome--soldiers, slaves, aristocrats, charioteers, and others.

Mindful that Caesar's own Commentaries are often boring to today's readers, Olivia Coolidge has written a companion volume in which she has drawn oin the resources of archeology and classical research to breathe life into the characters and the events. Some fiction has been introduced but the book is--in the main--history.

The life of the political philosopher whose pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis greatly influenced colonial opinion during the Revolution.