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." 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." In 2020, Mark Gilbert described the author and book as “being openly sympathetic to Powell’s views, and excessively inclined to recount in detail every speech and article that Powell ever made—and he made a lot—is nevertheless the best rightwing conservative narrative of postwar British politics that I know.” The book was shortlisted for the 1999 Political Book of the Year and the 1999
Channel 4 Political Book of the Year Award. ==References==