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Book Reviews:
- Amazon.com Editors Choice, Best Book—History, November 2018
- NY Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice—January 6, 2019
- Reviewed in The Economist (December 8, 2018, pp 81-2); NY Times Book Review (December 30, 2018, p. 12)
List of the interviews and public-facing media profiles:
- Interview with On Point (National NPR program), airdate: January 11, 2019.
- Interview with Give and Take Podcast focused on Mortal Republic, airdate: January 8, 2019
- Interview with Give and Take Podcast focused on Final Pagan Generation, airdate: January 8, 2019.
- Interview with Sean Moncrieff Show (Irish National Radio), January 7, 2019.
- Interview with KOGO Radio (San Diego), January 3, 2019.
- Interview with Sean Illing, Vox, posted January 1, 2019: https://www.vox.com/2019/1/1/
18139787/rome-decline-america- edward-watts-mortal-republic - Interview with Rob Burgess for the Rob Burgess Show, airdate December 17, 2018.
- “The Fall of Rome and the Lessons for America,” Time.com, December 15, 2018: http://time.com/5478197/the-
fall-of-rome-and-the-lessons- for-america/ - Interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM: December 13, 2018.
- Interview with Historically Thinking podcast focused on Mortal Republic, posted on January 9, 2019.
- Interview focused on fall of Roman Republic for Ideasphere on KCBX radio (San Luis Obispo, CA), airdate: December 27, 2018: https://beta.prx.org/stories/
263567 - Interview with Jeff Schechtman focused on fall of Roman Republic, Specific Gravity, airdate December 3, 2018: https://specific-gravity.
blogspot.com/2018/12/ democracies-are-not- foreverare-we.html - Interview with Askhistorians podcast focused on fall of Roman Republic, airdate November 23, 2018: https://www.reddit.com/r/
AskHistorians/comments/9zqr4t/ askhistorians_podcast_125_how_ rome_fell_into/ - Interview with The Young Turks network: https://tyt.com/watch/
38HQ0d2oysK6O8i8qcoicC/ 7rAfhkI4fuAAaUUCcgOYck/ episodes/ 2Db6l5DHso8SS8o0MAys6M - Radio Interview focused on fall of Roman Republic, Leonard Lopate at Large (WBAI radio, Brooklyn, NY), airdate: November 7, 2018: https://www.wbai.org/podcast/
program/?id=9 - Interview for the Octavianreport podcast focused on fall of Roman Republic:
- https://octavianreport.com/
rostrum/learn-fall-roman- republic/ - Interview for Smithsonian.com, focused on Mortal Republic: November 2018: https://www.smithsonianmag.
com/history/lessons-decline- democracy-from-ruined-roman- republic-180970711/ - Interview for New Books Network podcast focused on Mortal Republic and the contemporary relevance of the fall of the Roman Republic: https://newbooksnetwork.com/
edward-j-watts-mortal- republic-how-rome-fell-into- tyranny-basic-books-2018/ - Interview for History.com, October 2018: https://www.history.com/news/
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