I just went on a cross country road trip with my brother. We listened to a good chunk of Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". It's astounding.

I just went on a cross country road trip with my brother. We listened to a good chunk of Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". It's astounding. Give it as a gift to anyone who thinks today's political and social class is at all historically unique.