Shelfology Book Pairing

The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar

by Peter Stothard

Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate on March 15th, 44 BCE. For the next fourteen years, his killers were hunted down and murdered in turn. This is their story, one of ordinary men's motives at an extraordinary time, of ambitions, dreams, ideas, dizzying transformation in politics, desperate fear, and how to keep fear at bay.

An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

Rescuing Benjamin Franklin from the clich of genial codger, this book celebrates the most interesting, advanced, and earthy of the founding fathers. 16-page four-color insert.