How to stop a conspiracy with Sallust

[Based on How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic, by Sallust, translated by Josiah Osgood. Full book series here.]

If you need a strong endorsement to move you to read the ancient Roman historian Sallust, here is one:

“You go on, I presume, with your Latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Study...