Marc Hyden is a professional lobbyist (for reform of the death penalty) and media spokesman. He has a long-standing personal obsession with ancient Rome and has had numerous articles published on various aspects of its history.
Hyden does a masterful job of tracing Marius's rise to power through his successful military campaigns... Summing Up: Recommended. Most levels/libraries. -- Choice Hyden has done an impressive job of staying open minded about his subject, a rare achievement in biographies of figures from this period. His conclusion makes it clear that he sees Marius as a flawed figure, operating in a flawed system, but also unlucky in that he survived just long enough to tarnish his own reputation with the brutality of the last period of his life. -- History of War