Are there any good books about the fall of Rome?

[Initech]

Call it a hunch - I would like to read up and see what's happening now to what happened when Rome fell. What does DU recommend?

[struggle4progress]

1. Well, to quickly summarize the three-century-long collapse of the empire:

(1) Rome pissed on a lot of people
(2) People started saying "Rome pissing on us pisses us off":
(3) Rome told the pissed-off people to piss off and then pissed on them again, which pissed them off even more
(4) Finally the people, who pissed off at being pissed on and being told to piss off, told Rome to piss off

As I said, there's about three hundred some years of it, but I think I've hit the main themes

[Lionel Mandrake]

2. There's one that I know of.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

Volume I was published in 1776, as was a famous book by Adam Smith and a famous document by some disgruntled colonials.