Rome from the Ground Up by James McGregor ISBN: 0674019113 $29.95 Hardcover Belknap Press “Here is a walking tour in stately, inviting prose that renders wonderfully manageable a massive history lesson for the intellectually curious and adept.”--Publishers Weekly Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, Rome from the Ground Up conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting readers through time and space to the complex and shifting realities--architectural, historical, political, and social--that constitute Rome.