Like the Roman

Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell
	Enoch Powell by Allan Warren
Author	Simon Heffer
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication date	1998
Pages	1,024
ISBN	978-0-297-84286-6

Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell is a 1998 book by the English writer Simon Heffer. It is a biography of the politician Enoch Powell. The title is taken from Powell's 1968 Rivers of Blood speech when Powell quoted Virgil's Aeneid: "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood".

Reception[edit]

Ian Aitken reviewed the book in the New Statesman: "At 1,024 pages, it would have benefited from some judicious cutting. But for all its length, it is never tedious. Heffer writes with the same lucidity as his subject, but happily without Powell's corkscrew-like sentence construction."^[1] In 2014, Sathnam Sanghera selected Like the Roman as one of the "top 10 books of the Midlands" for an article in The Guardian. Sanghera wrote: "Powell remains a highly controversial figure, but if you want to understand the story of postwar immigration in Britain, and, arguably, postwar British politics at large, you need to read this book."^[2]

The book was shortlisted for the 1999 Political Book of the Year and the 1999 Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Aitken, Ian (11 December 1998). "The long road to oblivion. Ian Aitken on Simon Heffer's lucid and majestic tribute to the controversial genius of Enoch Powell". New Statesman. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
^ Sanghera, Sathnam (9 July 2014). "Top 10 books of the Midlands". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
^ Like the Roman : the life of Enoch Powell. OCLC 40652017. Retrieved 24 June 2017 – via WorldCat.

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[1] Aitken, Ian (11 December 1998). "The long road to oblivion. Ian Aitken on Simon Heffer's lucid and majestic tribute to the controversial genius of Enoch Powell". New Statesman. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

[2] Sanghera, Sathnam (9 July 2014). "Top 10 books of the Midlands". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

[3] Like the Roman : the life of Enoch Powell. OCLC 40652017. Retrieved 24 June 2017 – via WorldCat.

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